NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Plasmodial slime molds (the myxomycetes) form a large, multinucleate amoeba during their feeding stage called a plasmodium.

Detailed explanation-2: -On the other hand, plasmodial slime molds start out as individual amoeboid cells, but join together to form a multi-nucleate mass having only one cellular membrane (a “super-cell” containing multiple nuclei).

Detailed explanation-3: -A plasmodial slime mold is enclosed within a single membrane without walls and is one large cell. This “supercell” (a syncytium) is essentially a bag of cytoplasm containing thousands of individual nuclei.

Detailed explanation-4: -It moves around, feeding on organic matter like bacteria and other microscopic particles. During food shortages, plasmodial slime molds swarm and merge together into a large, multinucleated single cell called a plasmodium. The plasmodium has thousands of nuclei and does not contain a cell wall.

Detailed explanation-5: -The super cell characteristic describes how many slime molds have the ability to form a large multinucleated cell, called a plasmodium, that lack cell walls between the various nuclei. The lack of cell walls between nuclei indicates that cytokinesis is not occurring after DNA replication and mitosis.