Inside common utilize, sex gland is slang for testicles. A usage of such is similiar to "balls." When such, around an era in which supplementary women come reaching levels of power, of these might replenish a vernacular saying "He's got balls" to the gender neutral "They've got gonads."

Sex gland run getting as a most common anlage, and sole late come differentiated to male or even female sex organs. A SRY gene, located on the Y chromosome and encoding a testis determining factor, decides the counsel of this differentiation.

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