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What happens to the symmetry of echinoderms as they age?

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Echinoderms evolved from bilateral ancestors and they are bilateral in their free swimming juvenile life stage. As adults they assume a pentamerous or radial symmetry by metamorphosis of juvenile to adult form.
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