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It doesn't, really. Starfish are remarkable animals for their strange characteristics, but radial symmetry doesn't have significant benefit to the survival of the animal.

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Symmetry does not aid the jellyfish in any significant way, it is just used to distinguish it from other organisms.

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Some of them do - approximately. At a detailed level, they do not.

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