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Slime Mold Research Paper

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A slime mold is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms that can live freely as single cells, but they can come together to form multicellular reproductive structures. They were originally classified as fungi but they are no longer considered part of that kingdom any more. The acraiceae have a common characteristic of all forming a simple fruiting structure from the emergence of a unicellular amoeboid stage followed by a multicellular pseudoplasmodial stage. Stalk cells and spores are differentiated from the cells that develop in the fruiting structure. Sorocarpic amoebae also referred to as cellular slime molds, are heterotrophic amoeboid organisms. This means that they are organisms which derive its nutritional

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