Reproductive System Flashcards
Essential female organs, produces sex cells
Ovaries
Involves metoic cell division that produces daughter cells with equal chromosome numbers (23) but unequal cytoplasm
Oognesis
about the first 4-5 days of the menstrual cycle, (sloughing bits of endocardium)
Meses
Days between the end of menses and the secretory phase
Proliferative phase
Days between ovulation and beginning of next menses, about 14 days before next menses
Secretory Phase
Typically one ovum realised per cycle 14 days before next menses
Ovulation
hormones that cause ovulation
FSH and LH
Essential organs of the male reproductive system
Testes
passageways that carrys sperm from the testes to the exterior
ducts
produce protective and nutrient solution for sperm
sex glands
pouch like glands that produce about 60% of seminal fluid volume, secretion is yellowish and thick
Seminal Vesicles
Shaped like a donut and located bellow the bladder, 30% of seminal fluid volume, thin milk cloud. activates sperm
prostate gland
mucus-like fluid 5% of seminal fluid volume
Bulbourethral (Cowper) glands