ARANGOSO, Julius Renz V.

November 24, 2020

BSEDFL 1-1 Understanding the Self
Activity 7
Understanding our bodies and feelings (True or False)

True 1. Many males ejaculate too fast for the female to have orgasm.
True 2. The penis cannot produce urine and sperms at the same time.
False 3. If a man takes his penis out of the woman before ejaculating, she will not get pregnant or contract
HIV.
True 4. Men and women can have orgasm without sexual intercourse.
True 5. The brain is the biggest sex organ.
ARANGOSO, Julius Renz V. November 24, 2020
BSEDFL 1-1 Understanding the Self
Assessment 7
Critical Thinking Questions:

1. Identify the changes in sensitivity that occur in the hypothalamus, pituitary, and gonads as a boy or girl
approaches puberty. Explain how these changes lead to the increases of sex steroid hormone
secretions that drive many pubertal changes.

Answer: As the puberty of an individual approaches, there will be two shifts in sensitivity. The first is a
decline in the hypothalamus and pituitary sensitivity to negative feedback, indicating... To stop the
development of LH and FSH, larger concentrations of sex steroid hormones are increasingly required. The
second improvement in sensitivity is an increase in the sensitivity of the gonads to the signals of FSH and
LH, indicating that an adult's gonads are more sensitive to gonadotropins than the gonads of adults. Than
the children as a result, these two(2) modifications will steadily increase the levels of LH and FSH and
contribute to the enlargement and maturation of gonads, resulting in higher levels of sex hormones being
secreted and Spermatogenesis and Folliculogenesis being initiated.

2. Explain how the internal female and male reproductive structures develop from two different duct
systems.

Answer: These internal reproductive structures; will form from one of two rudimentary duct systems, in the
embryo. The testosterone secretion stimulates the growth of a male tract, while, the wolffian duct.
Substentacular cell secretions allow a woman's tract, the Müllerian duct, to degrade. Without these stimuli,
these Müllerian duct, will just develop and the Wolffian duct will degrade, resulting in a female embryo.

3. Explain what would occur during fetal development to an XY individual with a mutation causing a
nonfunctional SRY gene.

Answer: If the SRY gene are not functional, then the XY individual development would be genetically a
male. But it can be develop to a female reproductive structures.