The organs and associated structures associated with bearing offspring in a female animal.
Comment:
[homology-note] "By far, sexual reproduction is the more common pattern among living vertebrate forms and its widespread occurrence suggests that it is the plesiomorphic, or primitive, reproductive mode among the vertebrates.[well established][VHOG]" xsd:string {date_retrieved="2012-09-17", external_class="VHOG:0000726", ontology="VHOG", source="ISBN:978-0792383369 Lombardi J, Comparative vertebrate reproduction (1998) p.43", source="http://bgee.unil.ch/"}
Synonyms:
exact_synonym:
female organism genitalia; female organism reproductive system; genitalia of female organism; reproductive system of female organism