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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 organs in males and females.
If a banana slug has lost its male sexual organ, it can still mate as a female, making hermaphroditism a valuable adaptation. [22] The species of colourful sea slugs Goniobranchus reticulatus is hermaphroditic, with both male and female organs active at the same time during copulation. After mating, the external portion of the penis detaches ...
Intersex individuals in a number of gonochoric species, who express both female and male phenotypic characters to some degree, [189] are known to exist at very low prevalences. Although "hermaphrodite" and "intersex" have been used synonymously in humans, [ 190 ] [ pages needed ] a hermaphrodite is specifically an individual capable of ...
These are known as intersex people, or those who are born with congenital variations that complicate assigning their sex at birth, as they do not correspond entirely to the male or female sexes. A subsection of intersex people, those who have fully developed sexual organs of both sexes, are called hermaphrodites, [ 2 ] though the term is ...
In the Tantric sect of Hinduism, there is a belief that all individuals possess both male and female components. This belief can be seen explicitly in the Tantric concept of a Supreme Being with both male and female sex organs, which constitutes "one complete sex" and the ideal physical form. [11] [page needed]
Intersex is a general term for an organism that has sex characteristics that are between male and female. [1] It typically applies to a minority of members of gonochoric animal species such as mammals (as opposed to hermaphroditic species in which the majority of members can have both male and female sex characteristics). [2]
The executive order declares there are only "two sexes, male and female" and defines a "female" as "a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."
The sex organs of the green algae Chara are the male antheridia (red) and female archegonia (brown) 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.