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  2. Sex organ - Wikipedia

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    A sex organ, also known as a reproductive organ, is a part of an organism that is involved in sexual reproduction. Sex organs constitute the primary sex characteristics of an organism. Sex organs are responsible for producing and transporting gametes, as well as facilitating fertilization and supporting the development and birth of offspring ...

  3. Sexual system - Wikipedia

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    a sexual system for plants when female, hermaphrodite, and gynomonoecious plants coexist in the same population. [24]: 360 Monoicy: one of the main sexual systems in bryophytes. [17] In monoicy male and female sex organs are present in the same gametophyte. [18] Monoecy: a sexual system in which male and female flowers are present on the same ...

  4. Male reproductive system - Wikipedia

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    These organs are located on the outside of the body, and within the pelvis. The main male sex organs are the penis and the scrotum, which contains the testicles that produce semen and sperm, which, as part of sexual intercourse, fertilize an ovum in the female's body; the fertilized ovum develops into a fetus, which is later born as an infant.

  5. Plant reproductive morphology - Wikipedia

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    Or, with bisexual and at least one of male and female flowers on the same plant. [2] Protandrous: (of dichogamous plants) having male parts of flowers developed before female parts, e.g. having flowers that function first as male and then change to female or producing pollen before the stigmas of the same plant are receptive. [6]

  6. Sexual reproduction - Wikipedia

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    Flowering plants are the dominant plant form on land [46]: 168, 173 and they reproduce either sexually or asexually. Often their most distinctive feature is their reproductive organs, commonly called flowers. The anther produces pollen grains which contain the male gametophytes that produce sperm nuclei.

  7. List of related male and female reproductive organs - Wikipedia

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    Homologous structures in the external genitalia. This list of related male and female reproductive organs shows how the male and female reproductive organs and the development of the reproductive system are related, sharing a common developmental path. This makes them biological homologues. These organs differentiate into the respective sex ...

  8. Archegonium - Wikipedia

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    An archegonium (pl.: archegonia), from the Ancient Greek ἀρχή ("beginning") and γόνος ("offspring"), is a multicellular structure or organ of the gametophyte phase of certain plants, producing and containing the ovum or female gamete. The corresponding male organ is called the antheridium. The archegonium has a long neck canal or ...

  9. Sex - Wikipedia

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    In many other terrestrial animals, males use specialized sex organs to assist the transport of sperm—these male sex organs are called intromittent organs. In humans and other mammals, this male organ is known as the penis, which enters the female reproductive tract (called the vagina) to achieve insemination—a process called sexual intercourse.