Name:_____________________________UNIT:________________________
Note sheet. Use pages
following questions
374-387 to complete the
1) Reproduction:_______________________________________________
2) What is the male reproductive cell called?________________________
3) Where are sperm produced?_____________________________________
4) Muscular contractions force semen through the urethra and out of the body through a
process called___________________________.
5) How many sperm are released during ejaculation?______________________
6) What is the muscular sac that contains the testes?____________________
7) Where do sperm mature and stored temporarily?_________________________
8) When sperm mix with seminal fluid, where do they travel through? Vas Deferens
9) What are vas deferens? Tubes that extend from the epididiymis to the urethra
10) Sperm travel through the vas deferens where they mix with seminal fluid. This mixture
of seminal fluid and sperm = _______________________
11) What three parts of the system produce seminal fluid? Prostate gland, cowper’s
galnd, seminal vesicle
12) What is the male external sexual organ?______________________________
13) What is the male hormone? ______________________________________
14) What are the female hormones? __________________________________
15) What contains eggs and produces hormones?_________________________
16) What carries the eggs from the ovaries to the uterus?_____________
17) What is the job of the uterus?_______________________________
18) What is the endometrium? The lining of the uterus
19) What is the cervix?________________________________________
20) What is fertilization?_______________________________________
_________________________________________________________
21) What causes identical twins to be born? When a newly fertilized egg separates into
two fertilized egg cells
22) What causes fraternal twins to be born? When two different egg cells are fertilized
at the same time by two different sperm
23) From fertilization to the 8th week of development, the developing organism is called
an:__________________
24) From the end of the 8th week of development until birth, the developing organism is
called a:_________________
25) What is the placenta?_____________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
26) What is the umbilical cord?________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
27. What is heredity? The passing on of traits from parents to their children
28. What is a genetic disorder? A disorder that is caused partly or completely by a
defect in genes
29. What is prenatal care? Steps taken to provide for the health of a pregnant woman
and her baby
30. Who is an obstetrician? A doctor who specializes in the care of a pregnant woman
and her developing fetus, and who is present at the birth of her baby
31. What is a birth defect? Abnormalities present at birth that cause physical or
mental disability or death
Name:_____________________________Period:__________
Male/Female Reproduction HOMEWORK
a. embryo
b. scrotum
c. testes
d. testosterone
e. placenta
f. fetus
g. vas deferens
h. fallopian tubes
i. cervix
j. umbilical cord
k. fertilization
l. estrogen
m. uterus
n. sperm
o. epididymis
p. reproduction
q. ovary
r. endometrium
s. semen
t. ejaculation
1. _____Process by which life is continued from one generation to the next
2. _____male reproductive cell
3. _____where sperm is produced
4. _____where sperm are stored temporarily
5. _____seminal fluid + sperm
6. _____muscular contractions that force semen out of the body
7. _____where eggs are produced
8. _____carries egg from ovaries to the uterus
9. _____shelters and nourishes the fetus
10. _____lining of the uterus
11. _____the joining of male/female reproductive cell
12. _____from fertilization until the 8th week of development
13. _____from the 8th week of development until birth
14. _____male hormone
15. _____female hormone
16. _____tissue that connects mother to fetus
17. _____tube that connects fetus to placenta
18. _____muscular sac that contains testes
19. _____tubes that extends from the epididymis to the urethra
20. _____stretches to allow baby to be born; opening to the uterus