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Name two living organisms whose shapes have five-fold rotational symmetry

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Rotational symmetry is radial symmetry which means that the shape is the same after several rotations. In five-fold rotational symmetry the number of distinct orientations in which the object looks the same is five.
Living organisms whose shapes have five-fold rotational symmetry are sea stars (starfish) and sea urchin. They can be mapped onto itself through rotation about a central point by an angle of 2π/5.
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