gonads

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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 tests also found that adult male fish exposed to bifenthrin an cyhalothrin as larvae had smaller gonads than the control group, while the second generation had increased fecundity.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

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