Reaching The Age of Adolescence Notes

• Growth and reproduction are some of the important characteristic features of living things. They undergo the process of reproduction after attaining sexual maturity.
• Growth in Human beings is divided into two phases: primary and secondary.

• Some characteristic changes are common in male and female while some are specific in each.

Common changes in male and female:

Increase in Height:

• During this, gametes are produced by male and female gonads. This capacity lasts for longer period in males than in females.

• The process of gamete production in female is more complex than in male and it occur in a periodic manner.