Talk:Symmetry (biology)

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[edit] Biradial symmetry

What about biradial symmetry, where an organism exhibits both radial and bilateral symmetry? i.e. ctenophores Shikan 00:00, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge into symmetry

Merge some of this into symmetry, I think. Charles Matthews 16:27, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

I nominated this article for cleanup. Right now it is more in the style of a personal essay (for instance "...behavior, which further proves my hypothesis"). It definitely needs citations for any opinions or speculations. I will try to work on the some of the biological ones but am not sure I can help with the physics and such. — Knowledge Seeker দ 21:55, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

I've done what I can but I don't know enough about the subject to fix this properly. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 19:16, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Clean up Completed (but the work is never done) TheLimbicOne 03:43, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

"Humans are the best example of an organism that exhibits radial symmetry." I agree, just a tad bit of a cleanup needed...... (Has since been changed)

[edit] Merges

I'd like to merge all the suggested articles into one article.

  1. They all deal with symmetry in biology.
  2. Almost all the references to them come from articles in biology
  3. All of these articles are stubs; combining them creates a full fledged article.
  4. The collection of this information would make it more useful to someone wanting information on symmetry in nature.
  5. My merge would also include a cleanup of the article "Symmetry in nature"

In addition, I'd like to rename (move) the article to "Symetry (biology)"

I invite commets or feedback before I elect to be bold.

TheLimbicOne 03:30, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Sounds like a good plan, if you're ambitious. Don't forget the two m's. — Knowledge Seeker দ 03:50, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
This article may add a bit. — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:03, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
"...two m's." D'oh! I've been doing that on and off all night long. I'll spell check before I post a final article. :-)
Agree. Make the bilateral symmetry page redirect to reflection symmetry rather than here (the first line of that article gives it away) and radial symmetry to rotational symmetry, but move the contents here. And beware of inviting commets. Zeimusu | Talk page 14:52, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Merge Completed TheLimbicOne 03:39, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright image

As beautiful as the images demonstrating radial and bilaterial symmetry are, they are clearly copyright images and not fair use. 69.168.240.157 04:01, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm not convinced it's copyrighted. In the back of the book, Thomson Brooks/Cole publishing printed a 6 page section that lists the credit for each and every picture in the book. Most of them are marked with the "c" copyright mark after the name credit, but many are not. I think the ommission was deliberate to show that the unmarked pictures are not copyrighted. All of the information given by the publisher is posted with the picture. I was unable to find or contact the Leonard Morgan who created the picture. --TheLimbicOne(talk) 02:27, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
No, no, no! The onus is on the uploader to show that the image is free, not that it isn't mentioned as copyrighted. Almost all images in textbooks are copyrighted - in fact I've never even seen a textbook yet that uses free images, let alone makes the reader aware that they are free for them to use themselves. It appears to have been deleted, so I'm removing the link. Richard001 05:13, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sounds like an essay

It sounds more like a essay to me. It never actually gives a good definition of symmetry, bilateral symmetry, and others. Almost too personal. But whatever. I'll just go to the dictionary...

Please create a new section for comments and sign them. Richard001 05:13, 5 August 2007 (UTC)--~~~~Insert non-formatted text here<br /><sup><!-- Superscript text --><sup>Superscript text</sup></sup>