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Sexual maturity

Index Sexual maturity

Sexual maturity is the capability of an organism to reproduce. [1]

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Adult

Biologically, an adult is a human or other organism that has reached sexual maturity.

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Breast

The breast is one of two prominences located on the upper ventral region of the torso of primates.

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CRC Press

The CRC Press, LLC is a publishing group based in the United States that specializes in producing technical books.

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Gamete

A gamete (from Ancient Greek γαμετή gamete from gamein "to marry") is a haploid cell that fuses with another haploid cell during fertilization (conception) in organisms that sexually reproduce.

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Gonadosomatic index

The gonadosomatic index, abbreviated as GSI, is the calculation of the gonad mass as a proportion of the total body mass.

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Gynecomastia

Gynecomastia is an endocrine system disorder in which a noncancerous increase in the size of male breast tissue occurs.

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Hermaphrodite

In biology, a hermaphrodite is an organism that has complete or partial reproductive organs and produces gametes normally associated with both male and female sexes.

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Infertility

Infertility is the inability of a person, animal or plant to reproduce by natural means.

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Multicellular organism

Multicellular organisms are organisms that consist of more than one cell, in contrast to unicellular organisms.

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Neoteny

Neoteny, (also called juvenilization)Montagu, A. (1989).

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Organism

In biology, an organism (from Greek: ὀργανισμός, organismos) is any individual entity that exhibits the properties of life.

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Puberty

Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction.

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Reproduction

Reproduction (or procreation or breeding) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parents".

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Secondary sex characteristic

Secondary sex characteristics are features that appear during puberty in humans, and at sexual maturity in other animals.

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Sex change

Sex change is a process by which a person or animal changes sex – that is, by which female sexual characteristics are substituted for male ones, or vice versa.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.

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Sexual reproduction

Sexual reproduction is a form of reproduction where two morphologically distinct types of specialized reproductive cells called gametes fuse together, involving a female's large ovum (or egg) and a male's smaller sperm.

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Synonym

A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.

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University Press of America

University Press of America is an academic publisher based in the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_maturity

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