gonads
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As a postdoctoral scholar, Özpolat was most interested in how worms made new gonads as part of this chain-like reproductive process.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024
Whether early gonads become ovaries or testes is due to cells either becoming Sertoli cells for testes, or pregranulosa cells for ovaries.
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
Obviously, then, there is little basis for the hope or belief that the gonads of any organism are shielded from chemicals in the environment.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
