Exercise Science Form 1 - Reproduction
The sexual organs of the human female
Fill in the blanks with suitable answers.
1. Reproduction is a process of generating
_______________________________________
2. State the importance of reproduction.
a) _____________________________________
_____________________________________
b) _____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
3. There are two types of reproduction
__________________ and __________________
reproduction.
4. Fertilisation happens when _____________ and
____________ sex cells are physically joined
together.
5. Fertilisation that happens _________________ a
female’s body is called the internal fertilisation.
6. Fertilisation that happens _________________ a
female’s body is called the external fertilisation.
7. Asexual reproduction does not involve the fusion
of ____________ and ______________ sex cells.
8. In asexual reproduction, a simple cell is divided
by itself to produce an exact _______________
of an organism.
9. There are five types of asexual reproduction:
a) _____________________________________
b) _____________________________________
c) _____________________________________
d) _____________________________________
e) _____________________________________
10. Mature organisms that have reached maximum
size perform cell division to produce two
_____________ cells.
11. The daughter cells produced will develop and
have the same _________________ as their
parent organism.
12. The process of ___________________begins
with the division of the nucleus followed by the
division of the cytoplasm.
13. The function of the testes is to produce
_______________.
14. The testes are located outside the body in the
scrotum because sperms cannot form at human
________________________.
15. The prostate gland produces
__________________ that protects the sperms.
16. A sperm is made up of three parts;
____________, ___________ and ___________.
17.
reproductive system are the______________,
the____________________, the_____________,
and the ______________.
18. The function of the ovaries is to
______________________.
19. An ovum is released by either of the ovaries
about every ___________ days.
20. The uterus is also known as the _____________.
21. Compare and contrast male and female gametes.
Sperm Differences Ovum
size
number
mobility
shape
place of
production
number
produced
life span
The role of an ovum in reproduction.
22. A normal woman has a pair of _____________ in
her abdominal region.
23. The ovaries are able to produce female gametes
called the ____________.
24. An ovum is spherical structure surrounded by a
layer of ___________ coating.
25. It consists of a nucleus filled with chromosomes
and cytoplasm containing stored ____________.
26. An __________ is larger than a sperm, with a
diameter of about 0.1 mm. Unlike the sperm, it
cannot _____________ by itself.
27. Only ________ ovum is released from the ovary
during a particular period of time.
28. Ovum will be released from the ovary of a
woman who has reached ____________ at about
12 years old.
29. The ovaries will stop producing ova when a
woman is about 55 years old or when she reaches
_________________.
30. The ovum is the _______________ cell in the
female body because it contains dense cytoplasm
to provide food to the embryo at the early stage
of its development.
31. An ovum that is not _______________ by a
a sperm can only survive for 36 hours in the human
uterus.
32. After this period, the ovum will die and is
discharged from the human body as __________.