Reproduction

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What does the placenta do?
Where the baby gets its food, water, oxygen
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What is the umbilical cord?
Carries blood between the fetes and the placenta
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What is a Fetus?
When the embryo develops limbs and organs
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What is an Embryo?
A ball of cells formed from a fertilised egg
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How long does pregnancy normally last?
9 weeks
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What happens when the baby is ready to be born?
The uterus contracts and the baby is born head first
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What are fraternal twins?
A boy and girl twin
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How are identical twins formed?
When the fertilised egg splits and forms another egg
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How are normal twins formed?
When the woman releases two eggs and both are fertilised
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What protects the developing embryo?
Amniotic fluid
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Why does the fetus' blood not mix with the mother's ?
The mothers blood is pumped at a higher pressure the the fetus
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Where is the egg cell made?
In the overy
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Where does the baby develop?
In the uterus
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What part has ciliated cell to push the egg along?
The oviduct
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Where is sperm made?
The testes
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Which part adds fluids to the sperm to make semen?
The glands
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Which tube allows urine and semen to go out the penis?
The urethra
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What does the cervix do?
Hold the baby in place
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What is circumcision?
When the foreskin is removed
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What is menopause?
When the woman stops releasing egg cells
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What is internal fertilisation?
When the egg cell develops in the woman
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What is external fertilisation?
When the egg cell develops outside the woman
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What is a disadvantage of external fertilisation?
Eggs could get eaten
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Sperm cell specialities?
Tail to help it swim, has a microchondria
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Egg cell specialities?
Large, contains loads of genetic information
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.What is the gestation period?
Average time an animal is pregnant for
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What is afterbirth?
When the placenta comes away from the uterus and passes out the vagina
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How long is the menstrual cycle?
28-32 days
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What happens during a period?
The lining of the uterus comes away
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How long does menstruation last?
3-7 days
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What happens about 14 days into the menstruation?
An egg I released
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What is puberty?
How your body changes and develops over time
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What happens to you're ribs, diaphragm and intercostal muscles When you breath in?
Ribs: Go down and in. Diaphragm: moves up. Intercostal muscles: relax
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What happens to you're ribs, diaphragm and intercostal muscle when you breath out?
Ribs:lift and expand. Diaphragm:moves down. Intercostal muscles: contract
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What is the umbilical cord?

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Carries blood between the fetes and the placenta

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What is a Fetus?

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What is an Embryo?

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How long does pregnancy normally last?

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