THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
IS THE BIOLOGICAL
SYSTEM MADE UP OF
ALL THE ANATOMICAL
ORGANS INVOLVED IN
SEXUAL REPRODUCTION.
THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

MALE
REPRODUCTIVE
SYSTEM
FEMALE
REPRODUCTIVE
SYSTEM
• PRODUCES THE FEMALE
GAMETES
• PRODUCES THE MALE • RECEIVES THE MALE
GAMETES GAMETES
• TRANSFER THE GAMETES TO • CARRIES THE BABY
THE FEMALE THROUGHOUT ITS
DEVELOPMENT
 EXTERNAL

DEPOSITS THE
SPERM INTO THE
PENIS VAGINA DURING
SEXUAL
INTERCOURSE

HANGS BEHIND
THE PENIS AND
CONTAINS THE
TESTICLES. IT ACTS
SCROTUM AS A CLIMATE
CONTROL SYSTEM
FOR THE TESTES
 INTERNAL
RESPONSIBLE FOR
MAKING THE
TESTOSTERONE AND
TESTIS PRODUCING SPERM
CELLS

SEMINIFEROUS
TUBULES
 INTERNAL

A LONG COILED TUBE

THAT RESTS ON THE
EPIDIDYMIS BACKSIDE OF EACH
TESTICLE. IT CARRIES,
STORES, AND BRINGS
SPERM TO MATURITY.

VAS IT TRANSPORTS MATURE

DEFERENS SPERM TO THE URETHRA
IN PREPARATION FOR
EJACULATION.
 INTERNAL

EJACULATORY FORMED BY THE FUSION

DUCT OF VAS DEFERENS AND
SEMINAL VESICLES.

CARRIES URINE FROM

URETHRA THE BLADDER TO
OUTSIDE OF THE BODY.

PRODUCES A SUGAR-RICH
SEMINAL FLUID (FRUCTOSE) THAT
PROVIDES SPERMS WITH
VESICLE NOURISHMENT AND
HELPS WITH THE SPERMS
MOTILITY.
 INTERNAL
PROSTATE IT IS A WALNUT-LIKE STRUCTURE
GLAND RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SECRETION
OF THE THICK, MILKY ALKALINE
FLUID FOR INCREASING THE
MOTILITY OF SPERMS.

COWDER’S ALSO CALLED THE

BULBOURETHRAL GLAND.
GLAND PRODUCE CLEAR, SLIPPERY
FLUID THAT EMPTIES DIRECTLY
INTO THE URETHRA. THIS FLUID
SERVES TO LUBRICATE THE
URETHRA AND TO NEUTRALIZE
ANY ACIDITY DUE TO RESIDUAL
DROPS OF URINE IN THE
URETHRA.
 THE
VULVA
 THE VULVA
The vulva is the global term that describes all of
the structures that make the female external
genitalia
 FALLOPIAN
TUBE
ENDOMETRIUM

UTERUS

CERVIX
FIMBRIAE

OVARY
VAGINA
 OVARY – SITE OOGENESIS; PRODUCES HORMONES
ESTROGEN AND PROGESTERONE.
FIMBRIAE - PICKS UP THE OVUM (EGG CELL) FROM THE
OVARY.
FALLOPIAN TUBE – PASSAGE FROM OVARY TO UTERUS;
SITE OF FERTILIZATION (WHERE ZYGOTE IS FORMED)
ENDOMETRIUM – NOURISHES THE EMBRYO; SHEDS
DURING MENSTRUATION.
UTERUS – SITE OF EGG IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO
DEVELOPMENT.
CERVIX – MUSCULAR OPENING OF THE UTERUS.
VAGINA – ENTRANCE OF THE PENIS; ALSO CALLED THE
BIRTH CANAL.
PATHWAY OF EGG CELLS

OVARY

FIMBRIAE

FALLOPIAN
TUBE

UTERUS
PATHWAY OF SPERM CELLS WHEN INSIDE THE
FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SUYTEM
 ASSESSMENT!

1. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE MALE SEX CELL OF THE MALE

REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM? __________

2. DOES THE EGG CELL STILL TRAVEL DOWN THE UTERUS EVEN
IF IT IS UNFERTILIZED? YES OR NO?

4. IN WHAT ORGAN IN THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM ARE

THE SPERM CELLS PRODUCE? _________

5. THIS IS THE PATHWAY OF URINE AND SEMEN (CONTAINING

SPERM CELLS).
6. THIS IS THE LINING THAT SURROUNDS THE UTERUS. ________

7. TRUE OR FALSE: MEN CAN STILL EJACULATE AND STILL

RELEASE SEMEN EVEN AFTER VASECTOMY. ________

8. TRUE OR FALSE: WHEN EGG CELLS ARE NOT FERTILIZED, THEY

MOVE BACK TO THE OVARY.

9. WHAT BODILY FLUID CAUSES THE PENIS TO ERECT? ______

10. HOW MANY OVARIES ARE PRESENT IN THE FEMALE

REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM? _______