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the property of symmetry about an axis
the starfish illustrates radial symmetry
How To Use radial symmetry In A Sentence
- As mentioned above, a few tetraradial ‘medusoids’ could be scyphozoan jellyfish, but tetraradial symmetry is also typical of the Hydrozoa and Cubozoa.
- The group is easily recognized by their radial symmetry, with a central nonseptate axis to which are attached whorls of lateral appendages which may or may not be branched.
- At this stage, the blastula is in the form of a hollow sphere with radial symmetry.
- Some of our rectangles had radial symmetry, while others achieved asymmetrical balance.
- This shows that they evolved from normal ancestors and only secondarily reverted to radial symmetry.
- the starfish illustrates radial symmetry
- radial symmetry
- Radial symmetry The arrangement of parts in an organism in such a way that cutting in any plane across the diameter splits the structure into similar halves ( mirror images).
- Cnidarians are radially symmetrical, meaning that they're symmetrical around several axes, like the spokes in a bicycle wheel, whereas all the organisms depicted to the right of the cnidarian are bilaterally symmetrical, meaning they're only symmetrical around the head-to-tail axis (except for the echinoderms, which evolved radial symmetry independently). 2005 June - Telic Thoughts
- However, annulated tubes with definite tetraradial symmetry have been found in Ediacaran-age biotas in both South America and southwestern North America, and referred to the genus Corumbella.