Reproductive Terms 2 Crossword

The behavioral drive associated with the desire to mate; sex drive.
Swelling and inflammation of the mammary glands.
Two offspring produced during a single pregnancy, each resulting from the same egg and sperm causing two sexually and genetically identical individuals.
The chemical changes in the body that provides energy for the physiological functions and activities of living organisms
– Invisible or cannot be observed without the aid of a microscope.
The proliferation, growth, and maturation of ova.
Oval or egg-shaped
The process of discharging an ovum from the mature follicle of an ovary
The process of giving birth.
State of function of the life processes and functions of an animal, (e.g., growth, maintenance, lactation, and gestation)
The structure formed by fusion of the chorion with the wall of the uterus that serves to attach the embryo to the uterine wall and to exchange nutrients, wastes, and gases between the mother and the fetus
The hormone produced by the corpus luteum on an ovary during pregnancy and which keeps estrus from occurring and causes the mammary system to develop.
Disease in which the causative agent is a protozoan.
An underdeveloped sex organ such as is found in male poultry.
Liquid, non-cellular portion of semen that is not required for fertility, but is important as a vehicle of delivery for the sperm cells.
The male sex cells produced by the testes that carry the genes and chromosomes of the male that combine with those of the female ovum during reproduction.
The process by which sperm cells are produced.
The inability to reproduce.
A hormone produced in the testes of the male that functions in stimulating male sex drive, masculine characteristics, and the development of the male reproductive tract.
Crater-like lesions on the surface of the skin or mucous membrane that are produced by the sloughing off of inflammatory dead tissue.
The liquid waste expelled from the body.
Partial or complete turning inside out of the uterus, usually following parturition.
Supplied with blood vessels.
A contagious disease that is usually contracted by animals through sexual intercourse.
The external opening of the cloaca; the anus of poultry
Capable of growing and developing
The cell resulting from the union of a sperm and an ovum until it divides.