EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Jellyfish and many other marine animals such as sea urchins, sea stars, and sea anemones have what is known as radial symmetry.

Detailed explanation-2: -All 200 documented species of the jellyfish group Medusozoa, which is diverse, have radial symmetry. This means that, like the spokes of a bicycle wheel, their appendages spread outward from a central location. Jellyfish have radial symmetry.

Detailed explanation-3: -Radial symmetry is found in the cnidarians (including jellyfish, sea anemones, and coral) and echinoderms (such as sea urchins, brittle stars, and sea stars).

Detailed explanation-4: -It is a type of symmetry, where the body of the individual can be divided into equal halves by any plane passing through the centre from top to bottom. Sponges, echinoderms, and cnidarians exhibit radial symmetry. Jellyfish are under the phylum Cnidaria.

Detailed explanation-5: -For example, pies, snowflakes, and starfish are radially symmetric because they have many different lines of symmetry (dividing them into matching halves) and the lines cross one another at the center.