MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

2 MAIN FUNCTIONS 1.PRODUCE SPERM FOR REPRODUCTION 2.PRODUCE TESTOSTER0NE FOR MALE CHARACTERISTICS

SCROTUM HOLD TESTES PROTECT TESTES REGULATE TEMPERATURE – SCROTUM IS CONTRACTILE TISSUE – DRAWS TESTES CLOSER TO THE BODY WHEN IT IS COLD – LETS TESTES HANG FURTHER FROM THE BODY IN HEAT

TESTES MALE SEX GLANDS PRODUCE TESTOSTERONE – THE HORMONE THAT GIVES MALE CHARACTERISTICS PRODUCE SPERM – THE MALE SEX CELL

EPIDIDYMIS COILED TUBE ONTOP OF EACH TESTICLE SPERM MATURE IN THE EPIDYMIS- GET THEIR TAIL- LIKE STRUCTURE

VAS DEFERENS THE TUBE THAT CARRIES THE SPERM OUT OF THE TESTES AND TO THE SEMINAL VESICLE VASECTOMY - PROCEDURE WHERE THE VAS DEFERENS IS CUT SO NO SPERM IS RELEASED DURING EJACULATION.

SEMINAL VESICLE ADDS SOME FLUID TO SPERM HOLDING CELL FOR SPERM UNTIL EJACULATION THE SPERM ARE RE-ABSORBED BY THE BODY AFTER A FEW DAYS IF THERE IS NO EJACULATION

PROSTATE GLAND ADDS FLUID TO THE SEMEN COMMON SITE OF CANCER IN MEN

COWPER’S GLAND SMALL GLAND LOCATED UNDER PROSTATE ADDS FLUID TO SEMEN

URETHRA A TUBE THAT RUNS THRU THE PENIS PATHWAY OF SEMEN AND URINE OUT OF THE BODY

PENIS THE MALE SEX ORGAN

PENIS MALE SEX ORGAN FILLS WITH BLOOD TO BECOME ERECT