Matching Pairs Male ReproOnline version Male repro anatomy and functions by Ashlin Kendrick 1 Urinary bladder 2 Seminal vesicles 3 Vas deferens 4 Prostate gland 5 Scrotum 6 Retractor muscle 7 Testicles 8 FSH 9 GnRH 10 Sheath 11 LH 12 Androgens 13 Penis 14 Epididymis 15 Sigmoid flexure 16 Cowper's (bulbourethral) gland 17 Urethra pulls the penis back into the body Stimulate the development, growth, and activity of reproductive parts; trigger puberty, trigger the development of male secondary sex characteristics, and also function in the production of sperm stores, concentrates, and transports sperm stores urine; has no reproductive function produce seminal fluid that transports and protects the sperm releases fluid into urethra to cleanse and neutralize it to allow sperm to survive in it stimulates the anterior pituitary gland in the brain to release both FSH and LH, which are essential to reproduction. extends the penis outside the body during mating carries sperm and urine to the penis transports sperm from the epididymis to the urethra carries testicles and regulates their temperature deposits semen in the female reproductive tract and excretes urine from the body covers and protects the penis when it is relaxed produce sperm and hormones associated with reproduction causes the interstitial cells in the testicles to secrete androgens nourishes the sperm with a thick, milky fluid affects the tubules in the testicles, causing them to produce sperm.