The Reproductive System

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genes of a man to the mother. When the sperm leaves the penis it is called ejaculation, during this process three hundred million to five hundred million sperm are released. The sperm, just to give you an idea as to what it looks like, looks like a worm. Starting from the bottom is the tail or flagellum made of centrioles that give the sperm the ability to squirm into the woman’s ovum. Moving up the sperm is what we know as the body which looks sort of like a wax worm. The body is where there are huge clusters of mitochondria. Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the sperm. It’s like a v8 engine in a prius it gets the car moving! In the body the mitochondria wraps itself around the axial filaments (The bunched up part of the sperm). Finally is the head, (the big ball on top) which produces enzymes and also helps the acrosome penetrate the women’s ovum or eggs. Each testis has seminiferous tubules where the sperm is actually produced. Then between the tubules is what we call Leydig ...

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bladder to the prostate gland into the penis. During intercourse the urethra carries the sperm and while you pee it carries the urine, though of course not at one time because of the muscular sphincter which is just a ring of muscles that close off the bladder at certain times.
Next topic for discussion is how mommy got pregnant. “Well honey” says the mother. The first and foremost thing to remember is that the female always produces eggs or in scientific terms ova. That is why women go through ovulation into the menstrual cycle. The duty of the female is to develop and take care of an embryo until it is mature enough to come out into the world, usually this takes about nine months ...

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