Jesse Reimert 1st Blog Mon. March 8 3/3

Rewiew of Class

• Start New Unit: Human Reproductive System
• Handout on male reproductive system
• Talked about invetro pregnacy
• Other animal reproductive cycles

Thoughts About Material

This new unit seems like it will be fairly easy.  I hope there isn't anything too complex but it should be pretty straght forward.  It is going to be really interesting learning about all the different parts of the human body. Human anatomy is going to be sweet. It is also going to be different to learn about all my own body parts because you can't see some of them.  It's weird that some animals have such short reproductive cycles and I look forward to finding out why.

Above and Beyond

 Some other species take alot longer than humans to reproduce, such as elephants.  Once an elephant becomes pregnant she carries the calf for 21-23 months.  This is an advantage because the fetus has more time to develope and thus be stroger and not as fragile once it's born.  Elephants also have some of the same characteristics as humans like going through menapause and reaching sexual maturity.  There is more interesting info if you go to the following link.

http://elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/Life_Cycles/Adult/adult.html