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Anatomy and Physiology: Homologues of Reproductive Anatomy

The battle of the sexes. Men vs. women. Anything you can do, I can do better. For all that battling, it’s amazing how similar we can be. The bits and bobs that everyone seems to think separate us? Really quite similar, actually. "But," I can hear some of you saying, "there are some obvious differences."

I know what you're thinking… But even if the structures of our reproductive systems look quite different, what if I told you many of their functions are amazingly similar? And here’s the mind-blowing part: there's a stage in utero in which male and female anatomy is indistinguishable.

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The male sex organs comprise a complex arrangement of internal and external genital organs. Their function is concerned with reproduction and sexual pleasure. The internal genital organs are the male gonads (testis), epididymis, a series of ducts and the accessory glands. The penis and scrotum compose the external sexual organs.