Male Reproductve System Flashcards
Scrotum
Pouch of pigmented skin and fibrous tissue and muscle divided into 2 compartments
Testes layers
Tunica vaginalis - outer covering
Tunica albulginea - fibrous covering
Tunica vasculosa - network of capillaries
Seminal vesicles
Secrete seminal fluid
Provides energy for sperm
Prostate
Produces milky coloured prostate fluid composing of 30% of volume of semen
Penis
Passage for ejaculation of semen and excretion of urine
Secondary sex characteristics
Body hair
Muscle growth
Taller
Enlargement of larynx
Spermatogenesis stage 1
Diploid spermatogonia include twice number of chromosomes
Stage 2 sperm
Chromatids allow the exchange of genetic information through the synapsis process
It is done before dividing into haploid spermatocytes through meiosis
Stage 3 spermatogenesis
Through this division the new. Daughter cells will further divide into 4 spermatic having unique chromosome that are approximately half in number of original spermatogonium
Stage 4 spermat
Cells mov from lumen of testes to epidymis
They get move and developed into 4 sperm cells with growth of micro tubules
Fertilisation stage 1
Sperm makes contact with egg
Stage 2 fertilisation
Acrosome reats with zona pellucida
Stage 3 ferti
Acrosome reacts wt the perivitelline space
Stage 5 fertilisation
Sperm nucleus enters egg
Stage 6 fertilisation
Cortical granules fuse with egg plasma membrane