AVS-1500 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Male Accessory Gland, Sigmoid Colon, Bulbourethral Gland
20 Oct 2017
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Testes: gonad responsible for sperm and testosterone production epididymis: maturation and storage of sperm cells, consists of caput, corpus, and cauda vas deferens: carries sperm cells from epididymis to urethra. In roosters it carries sperm from epididymis to cloaca ampulla: storage place of sperm for those species who ejaculate very quickly accessory sex glands: secretes things to add into sperm to make semen. Includes seminal vesicles, prostate, cowper"s gland, urethra, penis prostate: gland that secretes buffers bc of the acidity of the vagina. Cowper"s gland (bulbourethral gland): gland that secretes the gel part of semen urethra: tube leaving to outside of body. Birds do not have this penis: copulatory organ. Consists of horns, body, and cervix mammal cervix: constricted except during estrus and when it"s time to give birth. Relaxin causes effacement and causes it to dilate. Boar deposits sperm beyond here mammal vagina: birth canal.
