Key Terms

Key Terms

11.1 Understanding Sexual Reproduction and Sexual Dimorphism

Sexual reproduction, sexual dimorphism, sex differences, stress, mitosis, gamete production, fertilization, development, intrasexual selection, intersexual selection, sexual conflict

11.2 Mechanisms of Sexual Determination and Differentiation

Sex determination, gonads, gametes, sex chromosomes, SRY gene, testosterone, estrogen, sexual differentiation, testes, ovaries steroid hormones, organizational, activational

11.3 Sex Differences in Brain and Behavior: Genetic, Hormonal, and Environmental Mechanisms

Classical steroid hormone signaling mechanism, rapid steroid hormone signaling mechanism, environmental factors, PCBs, DNA methylation, histone modification

11.4 Sex Differences in Brain Circuits and Susceptibility to Psychiatric Disease

Monoamines, serotonin, dopamine, mast cells, microglia