Symmetry in biology refers to the symmetry observed in organisms, including plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria. External symmetry can be easily seen...

organs (see axial twist theory), but also from various animals (see Symmetry in biology). Aurofacial asymmetry (from Latin auris 'ear' and facies 'face')...

Floral symmetry describes whether, and how, a flower, in particular its perianth, can be divided into two or more identical or mirror-image parts. Uncommonly...

Symmetry (from Ancient Greek συμμετρία (summetría) 'agreement in dimensions, due proportion, arrangement') in everyday life refers to a sense of harmonious...

asymmetry in some form. They are exceptions to the general pattern of symmetry in biology. In particular, these animals do not exhibit bilateral symmetry which...

under some change Symmetry in biology, the balanced distribution of duplicate body parts or shapes Molecular symmetry in chemistry Symmetry (Sequent Computer...

of, or a violation of, symmetry (the property of an object being invariant to a transformation, such as reflection). Symmetry is an important property...

encompassing aspects such as symmetry, layers, segmentation, nerve, limb, and gut disposition. Evolutionary developmental biology seeks to explain the origins...

as one of them. The symmetry group of an object is sometimes also called its full symmetry group, as opposed to its proper symmetry group, the intersection...

Yang–Mills theory. Many powerful theories in physics are described by Lagrangians that are invariant under some symmetry transformation groups. When they are...

with anti-symmetry and direction asymmetry. Fluctuating asymmetry refers to small, random deviations away from perfect bilateral symmetry. This deviation...

bilaterally symmetrical (see Symmetry in biology and Floral symmetry). If all of the petals are essentially identical in size and shape, the flower is...

In genetics, dyad symmetry refers to two areas of a DNA strand whose base pair sequences are inverted repeats of each other. They are often described as...

have symmetry, and the transformation is called a symmetry operation. Glide-reflection symmetry is seen in frieze groups (patterns which repeat in one...

phyla have holoblastic radial cleavage which results in radial symmetry (see: Symmetry in biology). During cleavage, there is a central axis that all divisions...

Aristotle's biology is the theory of biology, grounded in systematic observation and collection of data, mainly zoological, embodied in Aristotle's books...

and can sometimes be modelled mathematically. Natural patterns include symmetries, trees, spirals, meanders, waves, foams, tessellations, cracks and stripes...

was an older term already in use. The rhomboid has no line of symmetry, but it has rotational symmetry of order 2. In biology, rhomboid may describe a...

observed in many species, including humans, mice, and ants. Theoretical models have demonstrated symmetry-breaking similar to observations in empirical...

Symmetry breaking in biology is the process by which uniformity is broken, or the number of points to view invariance are reduced, to generate a more structured...

Symmetry breaking is a concept in physics. The term may also refer to: a concept in biology: Symmetry breaking and cortical rotation a concept in mathematics:...

within the same symmetry orbit. The polygon is also cyclic and equiangular. Isotoxal or edge-transitive: all sides lie within the same symmetry orbit. The...

echinoderms, adult sea urchins have fivefold symmetry with their pluteus larvae featuring bilateral (mirror) symmetry; The latter indicates that they belong...

Supersymmetry is a theoretical framework in physics that suggests the existence of a symmetry between particles with integer spin (bosons) and particles...

body plan". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 46 (2): 134–143. doi:10.1093/icb/icj018. PMID 21672730. Symmetry, biological Archived 13 November 2012...

The term metazoa is derived from Ancient Greek μετα (meta) 'after' (in biology, the prefix meta- stands for 'later') and ζῷᾰ (zōia) 'animals', plural...

Quantum biology is the study of applications of quantum mechanics and theoretical chemistry to aspects of biology that cannot be accurately described...

usually arrange in cyclic symmetry to form closed point group symmetries. The term was introduced by Chetverin to make nomenclature in the Na/K-ATPase...

human handedness and the notions of left, right and symmetry in biology, psychology, art and life in general, and the above-mentioned Dawn, the Origins...

amount of the quantity which flows in or out of the volume. From Noether's theorem, every differentiable symmetry leads to a conservation law. Other conserved...