Reproductive System Part 2

What is the importance of the reproductive system?

Ensure the continuation of our species, makes, store, care for, and release reproductive cells called gametes

What is the name of the organ that makes gametes and hormones?

Gonads

For men, what is the name of the male gonad that makes sex hormones called androgens?

For women, what is the name of the female going there that makes sex hormones?

Testes…. Ovaries

Name a common type of androgen.

Testosterone

The testes produce gametes. A common type of gamete is _____.

Sperm

Men produce about how much sperm every single day?

½ a billion

As soon as the sperm is mixed with glandular secretions it is now called _____ which is released during _______.

Semen…….ejaculation

What do the ovaries produce?

Immature gametes called oocytes and when it matures… the egg is called ovum/ova

Define spermatogenesis and where it occurs

It is the production of sperm and it occurs in the seminiferous tubules

Define oogenesis and where it occurs

It is the production of the ovum (AKA mature egg cell) and begins before a woman is born and it reoccurs monthly during her ovarian cycle

Define mitosis

The process of somatic cell division ( aka the process by which we make new cells in the body with any other cell except for sex cells)

When it comes to the reproductive system, there is no mitosis there is only _____.

Meiosis

Meiosis has ___ cell divisions and it produces ___ new cells, and a total of ___ chromosomes called _____.

2…4…23….haploid cells