Diploid, multinucleated plasmodium. San Mateo County, CA. Photo©CLCase

Biology 230

Cell Behavior and Slime Molds

(BIOL 230, Lab Experiment 1)

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This page is designed to help you differentiate between cellular and acellular slime molds.
 

Cellular or acellular? How can you tell?

 Haploid amoebae (green arrow) aggreate.

  

 

  

Migrating colony (slug) forms.

Slug settles and forms a stalk (green arrow)

  

 

Cells that crawl to the top of the stalk form spores.

Fruiting bodies with masses of spores at tips.