From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #3075 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, December 29 2017 Volume 14 : Number 3075 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Knock knock.. Who's there? ["Promo Clearing House" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 03:10:22 -0500 From: "Promo Clearing House" Subject: Knock knock.. Who's there? Knock knock.. Who's there? http://trentonamin.us/q2N8Owgf8hBdg_kSsOl4HzYlSKtDdMOX-dJ7h_zPKn3O-nix http://trentonamin.us/N4kU6vUxBALBnqHg0XOS4yR0Hjwrh6Ab0xpLiUsYPItxo3Sq Flowering plants show fivefold symmetry in many flowers and in various fruits/This is well seen in the arrangement of the five carpels (the botanical fruits containing the seeds) in an apple cut transversely/Hexamerism is found in the corals and sea anemones (class Anthozoa) which are divided into two groups based on their symmetry/The most common corals in the subclass Hexacorallia have a hexameric body plan/ their polyps have sixfold internal symmetry and the number of their tentacles is a multiple of six/ Octamerism is found in corals of the subclass Octocorallia/These hAnimals that are bilaterally symmetric have mirror symmetry in the sagittal plane, which divides the body vertically into left and right halves, with one of each sense organ and limb pair on either side/The great ma/ority (at least /) of animals are bilaterally symmetric, including humans (see also facial symmetry)//6//7//8/ Humans fi nd bilaterally symmetrical faces more attractive than those which are not/ this may be a cue that such people are healthier and genetically fitter when selecting a mate//9/When an organism normally moves in one direction, it inevitably has a front or head end/This end encounters the environment before the rest of the body as the organism moves along, so sensory organs such as eyes tend to be clustered there, and similarly it is the likely site for a mouth as food is encountered//8/ A distinct head, with sense organs connected to a central nervous system, therefore (on this view) tends to develop (cephalization)/Given a direction of travel which creates a front/back difference, and gravity which creates a dorsal/ventral difference, left and right are unavoidably distinguished, so a bilaterally syThe phylum Echinodermata, which includes starfish, sea urchins and sanddollars, is unique among animals in having bilateral symmetry at the larval stage, but pentamerism (fivefold symmetry) as adults//12/Bilateral symmetry is not easily broken/In experiments using the fruit fly, Drosophila, in contrast to other traits (where laboratory selection experiments always yield a change),right- or left-sidedness in eye size, or eye facet number, wing-folding behavior (left over right) show a lack of response//13/Females of some species select for symmetry, presumed by biologists ! to be a mark (technically a "cue") of fitness/Female barn swallows, a species where adults have long tail streamers, prefer to mate with males that have the most symmetrical tails//14/Flower of bee orchid (Ophrys apifera) is bilaterally symmetrical (zygomorphic)/The lip of the flower resembles the (bilaterally symmetric) abdomen of a female bee/ pollination occurs when a male bee attempts to mate with it/Flowers in so ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #3075 **********************************************