Question

What part of your study of reproduction and human development interested you? What did you find out that you never knew before? Example: "I think that it's a miracle that a child, our future generation, is so far along in development in only four weeks, I never knew that!"

Answer 1

I WONDER ABOUT THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM.IN MALE SVERAL ORGANS SERVE AS PARTS OF BOTH THE URINARY TRACT AND THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM.THE SRTUCTURES OF MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM INCLUDE THE TESTES, THE VAS DEFERENS (DUCTUS DEFERENS) AND SEMINAL VESICLES, AND CERTAIN ACCESSORY GLANDS ,SUCH AS THE PROSTATE GLAND AND COWPER'S GLAND (BULBOURETHRAL GLAND).

THE TESTES HAVE A DUAL FUNCTION :SPERMATOGENESIS ( PRODUCTION OF SERMS) AND SECRETION OF THE MALE SEX HORMONE TESTOSTERONE,WHICH INCLUDES AND PRESERVES THE MALE SEX CHARACTERISTICS . THE TESTES ARE FORMED IN THE EMBRYO,WITHIN THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY ,NEAR THE KIDNEY .DURING THE LAST MONTH OF FETAL LIFE ,THEY DESCEND POSTERIOR TO THE PERITONIUM AND PIERCE THE ABDOMINAL WALL IN THE GROIN.LATER THEY PROGRESS ALONGTHE INGUINAL CANAL INTO THE SCROTUM.IN THIS DESCENT THEY ARE ACCOMPANIED BY BLOOD VESSELS ,LYMPHATICS,NERVES, AND DUCTS,WHICH SUPPORT THE TISSUE AND MAKE UP THE SERMATIC CORD.

THIS COMPLICATED STUCTURE IS INTRESTING IN REPRODUCTION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT