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Functions of the male parts
Integrated Science · Grade 8 · about 40 minutes
What each part actually does, and how sperm and fluid together make semen.
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Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Why living things reproduce
- The male reproductive system
- Functions of the male parts
- The female reproductive system
- Functions of the female parts
- The sperm cell
- The egg cell
- Comparing sperm and egg
- What fertilisation is
- Where fertilisation happens
- Implantation and early growth
- The menstrual cycle
- The four stages of the cycle
- Tracking the cycle
- Menstrual hygiene
- Changes at adolescence
- Personal hygiene during adolescence
- Caring for a pregnancy