PSY290H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Sexual Differentiation, Sex Steroid, Allosome
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The assumption of mamawawa (men are men and women are women) is inconsistent with evidence. Femaleness and maleness aren"t discrete, mutually exclusive and opposite categories. Endocrine glands are the organs whose primary functions is to release hormones. But there are other organs that release hormones, that are a part of the endocrine system. There are 2 types of glands: exocrine glands: release their chemicals into ducts, which carry them to their targets (mostly on the surface of the body. Ex: sweat glands: endocrine glands: release their chemicals (hormones), directly into the circulatory system. Then the hormone travels until it reaches the targets on which it exerts its effect. Gonads are testes for males, and ovaries for females. After copulation (sexual intercourse), a single sperm cell may fertilize an ovum to form one cell: a zygote. Sperm cells and ova cells contain only half of the usual 23 pair of chromosomes.
