Review of the Class:
- Male Reproductive System Quiz
- Recall of Oogenesis
-Talked about menstration
-Talked about Castor Semenya the track star who is a hermaphrodite
-Homework: pg 529 #4578
pg 527 a-k
Thoughts on the Material:
I enjoyed learning about this section. It is very interesting to know how the body does this whole thing to help humans procreate. We learned about menstration and how females get ready for pregnancy. Its fascinating what your body does and you dont even realize it. I was very interested in learning about Castor Semenya. She is a hermaphrodite. Her ovaries are actually testes. So she has never menstrated. How could that happen? What causes this to happen? Did she still keep her medals as a track star?
Above and Beyond:
Although i enjoyed the class today i was still very interested to know how Castor Semenya became a hermaphrodite. I still am not sure how that would happen. I used this website
http://rodonline.typepad.com/rodonline/2009/09/report-caster-semenya-intersex-internal-testes-and-no-ovaries.html this website talked about the fact that she had testes, and she also had no ovaries and no womb. i used this website
http://reproductivesystem.suite101.com/article.cfm/what_is_a_hermaphrodite to find out what a hermpharoite is. I hermaphrodite is some one with bothe male and female parts. this can occur from high levels of male hormones with a female fetus within the womb.
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well done. 3/3. Mr. C.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if she kept her medals or not, but at the time she was fighting to keep them.