I've recently learned that the human ovaries don't have any tubes connecting them to the rest of the reproductive system. Does anyone know why, by chance? Any ideas?
They actually just pop out eggs in random directions, which are usually caught by funnel-like openings into the fallopian tubes. It doesn't seem to make much sense now does it?
To go more in-depth, without sounding too perverse for the forums:
The two paired ovaries inside the female reproductive system fire off eggs, once a month, in random directions. They are usually caught by Fimbriae, tiny tenticle-like structures that are sticky to adhere to the ova (eggs). They drag them into the Infundibulum (the afore-mentioned funnel-like openings), on either of the two fallopian tubes. There, well, if you don't know, then I really shouldn't tell you what happens next.
Now, on the rare occasion that one of the ova should miss, and be fired in a direction away from the fimriae and infundibulums, they are simply absorbed into the bloodstream, where they are attacked by white blood cells, and are expelled as waste (the body rejects them, because they only have 23 chromosomes instead of 46).
This seems like a waste to me, but nature has a reason for everything. I guess my question would be, does anyone think they know the reason? It baffles me...
They actually just pop out eggs in random directions, which are usually caught by funnel-like openings into the fallopian tubes. It doesn't seem to make much sense now does it?
To go more in-depth, without sounding too perverse for the forums:
The two paired ovaries inside the female reproductive system fire off eggs, once a month, in random directions. They are usually caught by Fimbriae, tiny tenticle-like structures that are sticky to adhere to the ova (eggs). They drag them into the Infundibulum (the afore-mentioned funnel-like openings), on either of the two fallopian tubes. There, well, if you don't know, then I really shouldn't tell you what happens next.
Now, on the rare occasion that one of the ova should miss, and be fired in a direction away from the fimriae and infundibulums, they are simply absorbed into the bloodstream, where they are attacked by white blood cells, and are expelled as waste (the body rejects them, because they only have 23 chromosomes instead of 46).
This seems like a waste to me, but nature has a reason for everything. I guess my question would be, does anyone think they know the reason? It baffles me...
