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gonads

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  1. The organs in animals that produce sex cells: ovaries in the female, testes in the male.


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Valenzuela's group is already at work on creating organoids from turtle gonads, to further investigate the underlying causes of sex determination.

From Science Daily Mar. 5, 2024

The higher amounts of -KTS reduced the expression of Sry in XY gonads and increased genes involved in ovarian development.

From Science Daily Nov. 2, 2023

Currently, transgender people who want to have their biologically assigned gender changed on family registries and other official documents must be diagnosed as having Gender Identity Disorder and undergo an operation to remove their gonads.

From Seattle Times Oct. 24, 2023

Some even retain their stomach contents and gonads.

From New York Times Aug. 1, 2023

Sublethal levels of the chemical halt cell division in the gonads.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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