Symmetry in Living Bodies

A mirror plane of symmetry actually exists through a vertical plane through any human or animal body (Fig. 9.3) as the right side of the body appear to be just mirror reflection of the left side. A more beautiful and interesting example may be cited as that of the Maple leave or more appropriately the butterfly and snail (Figs. 9.4-9.6). A more complicated symmetry, that is, rotation symmetry is very interestingly manifested in the pattern exhibited by flowers and is given in Fig. 9.7. 

Therefore, the symmetry is not only present in the total body of the living objects it goes down even to the molecular level. The living bodies cells contain chromosome, which carries and preserves the characteristics of the species and also the hereditary information. The chromosomes are consisted 

Genetic Science and is a certification of the fact the world has symmetry down to the molecule. The work of Watson, Crick, and Wilkins was duly acknowledged through the award of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, and their work was published as Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid in the British journal Nature (April 25, 1953). 

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