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1 Answer these questions by writing in the correct word or words.

a This word describes a woman who has a new baby growing inside her
b This is the organ system that animals use to have offspring:

c This is the organ where semen is left when a man and woman have sexual intercourse:

d This is when male gametes are released from the end of a man’s penis:

e This is a mixture of male gametes and a fluid that helps them to survive:

f This is the male gamete:

g This is the female gamete:

h This is the organ in which male gametes are made:

i This is the name for what happens when a male and a female gamete fuse:

j This is what an embryo does when it reaches the uterus:

k This is the organ that gets things from the mother’s blood for an embryo:

l This is the organ that connects the developing embryo to the organ in part k:

m This is the fluid that protects a developing embryo:

n This is a waste gas that the embryo produces by respiration:

o This is when a woman stops releasing egg cells:

2 a Write out the first letter of each of your answers.

b Find a short word in your letters that has something to do with sexual reproduction.
c Make up a ‘This is ...’ statement for your word, in the same form as question 1.

WORD: This is …

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