ONLINE SEX EDUCATION

ONLINE SEX EDUCATION

Physical and behavioral difference that distinguishes individual organisms according to their functions in the reproductive process. For information on issues of sexual health, sexual behavior, and sexual activity

Sex occurs at all levels of biological organization, with the exception of viruses. At the lowest level, bacteria conjugate and a length of the single chromosome is passed from the male, or donor cell, to the female or recipient cell. At more advanced levels, multicultural individuals have specialized organs (gonads) that produce specialized sex cells (gametes). On fertilization, genetic information is transferred from the small, motile spermatozoa (male gametes) to the much larger ova (female gametes). Plenty of organisms, including most plants, plenty of protozoans and invertebrates, and some fishes, have both female and male gonads and are called hermaphroditic (see Hermaphroditism). Hermaphroditic organisms, however, are never self-fertilizing; the female and male reproductive organs ripen at different times—times that also coincide with those of other individuals, thereby ensuring cross-fertilization.