reproductive system

• made to produce sperm and deliver it to the female • testes make high level of testosterone and millions of sperm after puberty • male urethra carries both urine and semen

• made to support a developing embryo • ovaries make estrogen • females are born with all their eggs and release one once a month • female urethra does not connect to the reproductive system

• epididymis • vas deferens • seminal vesicles • prostate gland • cowpers glands

stores sperm and lets them mature

• produces most of the semen • adds fructose, prostaglandins and proteins

tube that carries sperm up and out during ejaculation

adds fluid to semen and increases sperm movement

makes a lubricating pre ejaculate fluid pre cum

• penis • scrotum

• erectile organ that delivers sperm • made up of 3 columns of spongey tissue • a pair of corpora cavernosa and corpus spongiosum

• sac that holds and protects the testes and keeps them cool • balls

• ovaries • ovulation • fallopian tubes • uterus • endometrium • cervix • vagina

make eggs and female hormones

• where the egg is picked up • fertilization usually happens here

• pear shaped organ • the fertilized egg implants and develops here

• uterine lining that nourishes the embryo

• lower part of the uterus that opens into the vagina

• muscular canal that receives the penis and is the birth canal

1, mons pubis 2. labia majora and minora 3. bartholins glands 4. clitoris

• fatty pad over the pubic bone

• skin folds that protect the vaginal opening

• release fluid that lubricates the vagina

• erectile tissue w many nerve endings and involved in sexual arousal

testes