Endoskeleton three phyla and one subclass of animals, endoskeletons of various complexity are found: Chordata, Echinodermata, Porifera, and Coleoidea. An endoskeleton may function purely for support (as in the case of sponges), but often serves as an attachment site for muscle and a mechanism for transmitting muscular forces. A true endoskeleton is derived from mesodermal tissue. Such a skeleton is present in echinoderms and chordates. The poriferan 'skeleton' consists of microscopic calcareous or siliceous spicules or a spongin network. The Coleoidae do not have a true endoskeleton in the evolutionary sense; there, a mollusk exoskeleton evolved into several sorts of internal
Lattice of subgroups finite lattice is isomorphic to a sublattice of the subgroup lattice of some finite group . Subgroups with certain properties form lattices, but other properties do not. However, neither finite subgroups nor torsion subgroups form a lattice: for instance, the free product formula_3 is generated by two torsion elements, but is infinite and contains elements of infinite order. The fact that normal subgroups form a modular lattice is a particular case of a more general result, namely that in any Maltsev variety (of which groups are an example), the lattice of congruences is modular . Lattice theoretic information about the