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SLIME MOLDS

SLIME MOLDS. By: Andrew Veal. KEY FEATURES. TWO TYPES- Plasmodial slime molds which have numerous individual cells attached to each other, forming one large membrane.

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SLIME MOLDS

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  1. SLIME MOLDS By: Andrew Veal

  2. KEY FEATURES • TWO TYPES- • Plasmodial slime molds which have numerous individual cells attached to each other, forming one large membrane. • Cellular slime molds which spend most of their lives as individual unicellular protests. A chemical signal is secreted that causes them to combine into a cluster that acts as a single organism. • Slime molds are composed of an acellular mass of naked protoplasm (the living contents of a cell that are surrounded by a plasma membrane) with no cell walls in its vegetative state. • For a long time slime molds were classified in the Myxomycophyta as part of Fungi. Now we know that they are very unrelated.

  3. INTERESTING FACTS • Can reach up to thirty square meters! • In plasmodial slime molds the millions of nuclei in a single plasmodium all divide at the same time. This makes slime molds ideal for studying mitosis. • Their name comes from a part of their life cycle in where they appear to look like slime.

  4. LIFE CYCLE

  5. SIGNIFIGANCE MITOSIS!

  6. PLANET EARTH ACTION!

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