HEALTH 8

Quarter 1
Week 6

LEARNING MORE ABOUT

FAMILY HEALTH
Hormones play an important role in the expression of all physical and
psychological sexual characteristics of a person.

Luteinizing hormone (LH)

- Responsible for the production of sex hormones testosterone

Testosterone
- It regulates the production of sperm cells and the occurrence of
secondary sex characteristics in male.
Hormones play an important role in the expression of all physical and
psychological sexual characteristics of a person.

Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)

- Responsible for the production of sex hormones estrogen

Estrogen
- It regulates the production of egg cells and the occurrence of
secondary sex characteristics in female.
- It triggers the egg cells to mature in the ovary.
 PARTS FUNCTION
Testes or The male gonands; produces
testicles sperm cels
Stores newly-formed sperm
Epididymis
cells
Passageway of sperm cells
Vas
from the epididymis to the
deferens
urethra
Copulatory organ; transfers
Penis the sperms into the female’s
body
Passageway of semen
Urethra (combination of fluid and
sperm cells) and urine
Prostate Produces substance that
gland nourishes the sperm
Seminal Produces fluid that helps in
vesicle east transport of the sperms
Sac covering and protecting
scrotum
and the testes
PARTS FUNCTION

The birth canal;

Vagina receives sperm cells
from the penis

Boundary between
Cervix and vagina and the
uterus

Mother’s womb;
Uterus houses the
developing fetus.

Site for fertilization,

Ovictus (fallopian
passageway of the
choe
egg cell.

Female gonands;
ovaries
procedures egg cell