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Question
What are the accessory reproductive organs?
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Solution
- The accessory reproductive organs include all those structures, ducts, and glands that help in the transfer and meeting of the two kinds of sex cells, leading to fertilisation, and in the growth and development of the egg up to the birth of the baby.
- Female reproductive organs include the uterus, vagina, and fallopian tubes, rather than accessory reproductive organs.
- Females' mammary glands provide milk to nurture their infants after birth.
- The male accessory reproductive organs are the seminal vesicles and prostate gland.
- Female accessory reproductive organs are the mammary glands (for breastfeeding) and fallopian tubes (oviducts).
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