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Left and right side

Although your body looks roughly symmetrical from the outside, most of your inside is asymmetrical. For example, your heart is towards the left side of your body. So the embryo must know its left from its right before the organs start to grow. Genes control this. Very occasionally people are born with a genetic variation that completely reverses their body symmetry.

Many of your organs are asymmetrical.
Many of your organs are asymmetrical.

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