8 蒋悟生生物专业英语 第八课.docVIP

Lesson 8 Animal Development Production of Sperm and Eggs In sexually reproducing organisms males and females produce sex cells, known as gametes. These are swimming sperm in males and ova (eggs) in females. 在有性生殖的生物中，雄性和雌性产生生殖细胞，即配子。它们是雄性体内能游动的精子和雌性的卵子。 The process of sperm production, spermatogenesis, takes place in testes. The sperm originate in gonial cells (spermatogonia精原细胞) in the walls of seminiferous(输精管) tubules. Spermatocytes（精母细胞）produced by mitosis in spermatogonia divide meiotically to generate haploid spermatids精细胞. The mature sperm has a tail, a nucleus containing haploid ch