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What is the significance of epididymis in male fertility? - Biology

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What is the significance of epididymis in male fertility?

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The epididymis helps the sperm in attaining maturity, acquiring increased motility and fertilising capacity. It also stroes sperms for a short period before entering the vasa deferns. The epididymis shows peristatic and segmenting controctions at intervals to push the sperm away from the testis.

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पाठ 3: Human Reproduction - VERY SHORT ANSWER [पृष्ठ २१]

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एनसीईआरटी एक्झांप्लर Biology [English] Class 12
पाठ 3 Human Reproduction
VERY SHORT ANSWER | Q 7. | पृष्ठ २१

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Identify True/False statement. Correct false statement to make it true.

Spermatozoa get nutrition from Sertoli cells.


Put a tick mark (✓) against the correct alternative in the following statement:

The testes are located within the:


State the reason why testes lie outside the abdomen in a scrotum?


Differentiate

Urinogenital duct and Ureter.


Name the Following

The structure in which testes are present in man.


Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:

Tubectomy involves the cutting and tying of the vas deferens in males.


Find an odd one out.


Which hormone controls the secondary sexual characters in males?


ln the reproductive system of a male human being, the ejaculatory ducts open into ________.


Fructose is found in secretion of ______.


Each testis is connected to the wall of scrotum by short. fibromuscular band called ______.


Failure of testes to descend from abdomen into scrotum leads to ______.


Prostate glands are located below ______.


The primary sex organ of a human male is ______.


The correct sequence of organs in the male reproductive system for transport of sperms is


Give two reasons for the appearance of variations among the progeny formed by sexual reproduction.


Explain the function of the following structure in the human male reproductive system.

Scrotum


Mention the location and the function of Leydig cells.


The packing tissues between the coils of the seminiferous tubules are called as ______.


The figure given ahead is an organ system of humans. Study the same and answer the following questions.

  1. Identify the organ system.
  2. Label the guidelines 1 to 7.
  3. Write one important role of parts 3 and 6.
  4. Name the cells of part 1 that produce testosterone.
  5. What is the significance of the part 1 being located in a separate sac suspended outside the body?

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