What is the purpose of the female reproductive system?

Purpose?Making an eggGetting sperm and egg together

Protecting and nurturing the growing embryo

The Female Reproductive System

What are the parts of the reproductive system?

UterusCervixFallopian TubesOvariesVagina

•Produces Hormones

•Releases eggs

•are the size of almonds

What is the purpose of the ovaries?

•Transports egg to the uterus

•Where fertilization happens

What is the purpose of the fallopian tubes?

•Where the baby grows

•Expands as the baby grows

•Muscular tissue that pushes the baby out during labor

What is the purpose of the uterus?

Do you think all animals have a uterus?

What is the purpose of the cervix?

• Opening to Uterus

• Holds baby in Uterus

• Opens to let baby out of Uterus

•Where sperm is deposited

•Birth Canal

What is the reproductive purpose of the vagina?

• Released by the ovaries

• Travels down fallopian tube

• Can’t swim ( no tail)

• Fertilized in fallopian tube

• Implants into uterus lining

• Size of a pencil dot

• Contained in the Scrotum

• Within each testis are clusters of hundreds of Seminiforous tubules

• Which make sperm

• produces testosterone

• Need to be kept at a slightly lower temperature

• Located on top of the testes

• Sperm mature here

• Sperm stored here 2-4 days

There are two tubes, one on each side.

• Seminal Vesicle, prostate & bulbourethral

• Make seminal fluid which nourishes sperm & protects from acidic female reproductive tract

• Sperm + seminal fluid= semen

• 50-130 million sperm/mL

•Used to deposit sperm into female

• Produced in the testes

• Mature and stored in the epididymis

• Travel through vas deferens to urethra

• Ejaculated from urethra

• Deposited in vagina

• Swim through cervix and uterus

• Swim into fallopian tubes to fertilize egg

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