Reproductive System Flashcards
A passageway for the egg as it travels from an ovary to the uterus.
Fallopian tube
A HORMONE produces in the TESTES that controls the physical development of MALES including the production of sperm.
Testosteron
A female sex cell
Egg
The mixture of sperm cells and fluids produced by male reproductive glands.
Semen
When the lining of the uterus breaks down sending the blood and tissue out of the body through the vagina.
Menstruation
A chemical messenger carried by the blood that speeds up or slows down activities of an organ or tissue in the body.
Hormone
A muscular passageway leading to the outside of a female’s body from the uterus; also called the birth canal.
Vagina
Produce the hormones estrogen and progesterone and produce eggs.
Ovary
The joining of the egg and sperm.
Fertilization
When an egg is released from an ovary.
Ovulation
Produce the hormone testosterone and produce sperm.
Testes
A male sex cell.
Sperm
A HORMONE produced in the OVARIES that triggers some of the physical development of FEMALES including the development of eggs.
Estrogen
The male reproductive organ through which semen and urine leave the body.
Penis
A hollow muscular organ that starts out about the size of a pear, where the fetus develops.
Uterus
