Reproductive System, part 1 - Female Reproductive System: Crash Course A&P #40
Human reproduction is complicated an important, and it's going to take a four part series for us to cover it. Today, we're kicking that off with the female reproductive system, starting with...
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Maybe you’ve noticed that every time we talk about a new system, we highlight its importance by saying how you’d die without it. Like, without your muscular and skeletal systems you’d collapse into an inert bag of goo. Or how if we magically removed your respiratory or circulatory system, you’d die in a couple of minutes ‘cause your cells wouldn’t have oxygen. That’s because most of our bodies’ systems are just trying to keep us alive, minute to minute. But one of those systems doesn’t really care if you live or die. At least, not until it’s done its job. It’s how every living thing gets its start, but it doesn’t really kick in until puberty, and even then it’s more concerned about investing in the future than keeping you alive. Wh...
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Maybe you’ve noticed that every time we talk about a new system, we highlight its importance by saying how you’d die without it. Like, without your muscular and skeletal systems you’d collapse into an inert bag of goo. Or how if we magically removed your respiratory or circulatory system, you’d die in a couple of minutes ‘cause your cells wouldn’t have oxygen. That’s because most of our bodies’ systems are just trying to keep us alive, minute to minute. But one of those systems doesn’t really care if you live or die. At least, not until it’s done its job. It’s how every living thing gets its start, but it doesn’t really kick in until puberty, and even then it’s more concerned about investing in the future than keeping you alive. Wh...
