compare the body symmetry of the organisms: jellyfish, scypha, planaria (dugesia), protoreaster, sea urchin larva, butterfly, tilapia Type of Symmetry Phylum/Phyla Example specimens Advantage of this symmetry Asymmetrical Porifera Scypha   Radial Cnidaria, Echinodermata Jellyfish, Protoreaster   Bilateral Platyhelminthes, Echinodermata, Arthropoda, Chordata Dugesia Sea Urchin Larva, Butterfly, Tilapia

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compare the body symmetry of the organisms:

jellyfish, scypha, planaria (dugesia), protoreaster, sea urchin larva, butterfly, tilapia

Type of Symmetry

Phylum/Phyla

Example

specimens

Advantage of

this symmetry

Asymmetrical

Porifera

Scypha

 

Radial

Cnidaria, Echinodermata

Jellyfish, Protoreaster

 

Bilateral

Platyhelminthes, Echinodermata, Arthropoda, Chordata

Dugesia

Sea Urchin Larva,

Butterfly, Tilapia

 

 

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