Acrasiomycota (Dictyostelium):Cellular Slime Molds
- Funguslike
-Form plasmodium, a mass of cytoplasm containing diploid nuclei but no cell walls or membranes (slimy, multinuclate mass = feeding stage)
-Moves/creeps over surfaces of decaying organic material
-As they move, they engulf microscopic organisms and digest them in food vacuoles
-When moisture and food become scarce, a plasmodium transforms into separate, stalked, spore-producing structures
-Meiosis takes place (sexual reproduction)
-Form plasmodium, a mass of cytoplasm containing diploid nuclei but no cell walls or membranes (slimy, multinuclate mass = feeding stage)
-Moves/creeps over surfaces of decaying organic material
-As they move, they engulf microscopic organisms and digest them in food vacuoles
-When moisture and food become scarce, a plasmodium transforms into separate, stalked, spore-producing structures
-Meiosis takes place (sexual reproduction)