Symmetry in biology is the balanced distribution of duplicate body parts or shapes. The body plans of most multicellular organisms exhibit some form of symmetry, either radial symmetry or bilateral ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract How the radial body plan of echinoderms is related to the bilateral body plan of their deuterostome relatives, the hemichordates and the ...

A new study of expression patterns of key developmental genes in an anemone indicates that the phylum Cnidaria has been unfairly excluded from the 'family' of bilaterally symmetrical animals ...

Tsukuba, Japan—In nature, flowers may share morphological features, even across distantly related species. Bilateral symmetry is one such feature found in flowers of various taxa, such as orchids and ...