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From: buchbind@agrigene.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bio
Subject: Re: Morphological Asymmetry: the octopus as a candidate
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Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 09:46:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 09:46:26 1985
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> OK. You've shown it's bilaterally symmetrical. Now how is it morphologically
> assymetrical? Nothing you described tells me that.
> 
> 
> See:
> 			__
> 		       /  \
> 		      (    )
> 		       O  O
> 		       /||\
> 		     _/||||\_
> 		      //||\\
> 		       /  \
> 
> Even the 5 brains can be arranged symmetrically:
> 
> 
> 			1
> 		     2     3
> 		      4   5

One of the back two arms in the male is specialized for a sexual function
(transport of sperm).  I don't know about the female.  (Are there seperate
genders?)  In any case, that makes the octopus asymmetical.
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    Barry Buchbinder			    (608)221-5000
Agrigenetics Corp.; 5649 E. Buckeye Rd.; Madison WI 53716 USA
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