NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Plasmodial slime molds exist as a mass of amoeba-like protoplasm, (called a plasmodium) that contains many nuclei within a single cell membrane. Plasmodial slime molds, like Physarum, are basically enormous single cells with thousands of nuclei. They are formed when individual flagellated cells swarm together and fuse.

Detailed explanation-2: -Slime molds are classified in the Kingdom Protista (the Protists), despite many years of having been classified as fungi, in the class Myxomycetes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Acellular slime moulds spend their life as a single multinucleate cell which doesn’t have any membrane which differentiates the millions of nuclei present in a single large. This structure is called the plasmodium stage. Fuligo is an acellular slime mould.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fungus-like protists are molds. Molds are absorptive feeders, found on decaying organic matter. They resemble fungi and reproduce with spores as fungi do. Examples of fungus-like protists include slime molds and water molds.