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reproductive system

reproductive system, in animals, the anatomical organs concerned with production of offspring. In humans and other mammals the female reproductive system produces the female reproductive cells (the eggs, or ova) and contains an organ in which development of the fetus takes place; the male reproductive system produces the male reproductive cells, the sperm, and contains an organ that deposits the sperm within the female.

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REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM - The male and female parts of the human reproductive system can bring together an egg and a sperm so that they join and begin the development of a new
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