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    There are three main types of pattern in living and non-living things. Bilateral or mirror symmetry is found in animals and some plant leaves and flowers. Radial or rotational symmetry is seen in many flowers, sea anemones, and patterns like splashes and Saturn's rings. Echinoderms display fivefold symmetry, though they were originally bilaterally symmetrical. Non-living things like snowflakes and crystals can have radial, cubic, or other symmetries depending on their formation.

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    There are three main types of pattern in living and non-living things. Bilateral or mirror symmetry is found in animals and some plant leaves and flowers. Radial or rotational symmetry is seen in many flowers, sea anemones, and patterns like splashes and Saturn's rings. Echinoderms display fivefold symmetry, though they were originally bilaterally symmetrical. Non-living things like snowflakes and crystals can have radial, cubic, or other symmetries depending on their formation.

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    There are three main types of pattern in living and non-living things. Bilateral or mirror symmetry is found in animals and some plant leaves and flowers. Radial or rotational symmetry is seen in many flowers, sea anemones, and patterns like splashes and Saturn's rings. Echinoderms display fivefold symmetry, though they were originally bilaterally symmetrical. Non-living things like snowflakes and crystals can have radial, cubic, or other symmetries depending on their formation.

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    There are three main types of pattern in living and non-living things. Bilateral or mirror symmetry is found in animals and some plant leaves and flowers. Radial or rotational symmetry is seen in many flowers, sea anemones, and patterns like splashes and Saturn's rings. Echinoderms display fivefold symmetry, though they were originally bilaterally symmetrical. Non-living things like snowflakes and crystals can have radial, cubic, or other symmetries depending on their formation.

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    Symmetry is pervasive in living things. Animals mainly have bilateral or mirror symmetry, as do the
    leaves of plants and some flowers such as orchids. Animals that move in one direction necessarily have
    upper and lower sides, head and tail ends, and therefore a left and a right. The head becomes
    specialized with a mouth and sense organs (cephalization), and the body becomes bilaterally symmetric
    (though internal organs need not be).

    Plants often have radial or rotational symmetry, as do many flowers and some groups of animals such as
    sea anemones.

    Rotational symmetry is also found at different scales among non-living things including the crown-
    shaped splash pattern formed when a drop falls into a pond, and both the spheroidal shape and rings of
    a planet like Saturn.

    Radial symmetry suits


    organisms like sea anemones
    whose adults do not move:
    food and threats may arrive
    from any direction.

    Fivefold symmetry is found


    in the echinoderms, the group
    that includes starfish, sea
    urchins, and sea lilies. The
    reason for the fivefold
    (penta-radiate) symmetry of
    the echinoderms is puzzling.
    Early echinoderms were
    bilaterally symmetrical, as
    their larvae still are. Sumrall and Wray argue that the loss of the old symmetry had both developmental
    and ecological causes.

    Among non-living things, snowflakes have striking six-fold symmetry: each flake’s structure forming a
    record of the varying conditions during its crystallization, with nearly the same pattern of growth on
    each of its six arms.

    Crystals in general have a variety of symmetries and crystal habits; they can be cubic or octahedral, but
    true crystals cannot have fivefold symmetry (unlike quasicrystals).

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