Reproductive System Terms

• Gender 


  Characteristics of men, women, girls and boys are socially-constructed

  • Norms, behaviours and roles
  • Interacts with, but is not the same sex
• Sex


  Different biological and physiological characteristics of females, males and intersex persons

  • Chromosomes
  • Hormones
  • Reproductive Organs
• Gender Identity

  A person's deeply felt, internal and individual experience of gender

  • may/ may not correspond to the person's physiology or designated sex at birth
• Gonad/o

  sex glands (ovaries or testes)
• Gamet/o


  gamete cells (ova, sperm)
• -tropin

  stimulating the function of (to turn or act on)
• Gonado/tropin


  hormones that stimulates sex glands (gonads)