1. Write the name of the human male reproductive organ that produces sperms and secretes a hormone

  1. Write the name of the human male reproductive organ that produces sperms and secretes a hormone. Name the hormone secreted and state its function?
  2. Write the site of fertilization and the part where the zygote gets implanted in the human female.
  3. State in brief, how an embryo gets its nourishment inside the mother’s body.
  1. Testis produce sperms or male gametes in humans. Testis secrete testosterone hormone. Testosterone brings changes in puberty like beard in males.

  2. Site of fertilization: Fallopian tubes of human female. The zygote gets implanted into uterine wall.

  3. How do embryo gets its nourishment: The embryo gets its nutrition from the mother’s blood by help of a special tissue that is called placenta. It refers to a disc embedded in uterine wall. This has villi on embryo’s side of this tissue. On mothers side lie blood spaces enclosed by villi. It provides large surface area for glucose and oxygen to pass from the mother to embryo.