ext_2361 ([identity profile] eliyes.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] eliyes 2009-02-27 05:01 am (UTC)

Quoted from wikipedia:

"The gonad is the organ that makes gametes. The gonads in males are the testes and the gonads in females are the ovaries. The product, gametes, are haploid germ cells. For example, spermatozoon and egg cells are gametes. Although medically the gonad term can refer to either male gonads (testicles) or female gonads (ovaries), the vernacular, or slang, use of "gonads" (or "nads") usually only refers to the testicles."

I am currently finding this amusing, mainly because of that last point.

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