Female and Male Reproductive Organs (Animal)

• Ovaries - Produce both the egg cell and the sex hormones
• Oogenesis: development of ovarian follicles. Secretion of estrogen and progesterone
• Fallopian Tubes - area where fertilization occurs
• Oviducts and Uterus - egg cell is released into the abdominal activity near the opening of the oviduct, or fallopian tube.
• Vagina and Vulva - a thin-walled chamber that is the repository for sperm during copulation and that serves as the birth canal through which a baby is born.
• Mammary glands - present in both sexes but normally function only in women.
• Testes (singular, testis) - consist of many highly coiled tubes (seminiferous tubules – where sperm form) surrounded by several layers of connective tissue.
• Ducts - from seminiferous tubules, the sperm pass into the epididymis
• Glands - three sets of accessory glands – the seminal vesicles, prostate gland, and bulbourethral glands – add secretions to the semen, the fluid that is ejaculated.
• Penis - is composed of three cylinders of spongy erectile tissue derived from modified veins and capillaries.