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Is it a Plant?
I am sometimes a single cell, feeding. When times are rough I coagulate with more like me to become a moving thing, a multicellular organism, looking like an animal. I move to a better place to live, and become a plant. As a plant I grow many small black spores, and release them, to reproduce.
What am I?
What am I?
Answer
I am a slime mold.It starts off as a single cell organism, feeding on its surroundings. When the food source gets scarce, it gets together with more slime mold and becomes an organism that is called a pseudoplasmodium and is capable of slug-like movement. It crawls to a more favorable location, and changes into a plant. It erects a stalk which grows small black spores which it releases all at one time, and the process starts all over again.
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Is that where they got the idea for "The Blob"???? Anyway, very interesting!
Agreed
I knew I should have paid attention in science.
I knew that!
"psuedoplasmodium", translatively is "fake plasma creature" using Latin word roots
"psuedoplasmodium", translatively is "fake plasma creature" using Latin word roots
Slime mold duh!
Has anyone read "The future is Wild" they have a really cool section on slime molds in the future!
Has anyone read "The future is Wild" they have a really cool section on slime molds in the future!
Well, I did not know this and it very cool and interesting! Thanks for sharing.
And nice breakdown of the word.
And nice breakdown of the word.
UMMM....HUH!?
LOL, JK, I KNEW, AND IM ONLY 13
LOL, JK, I KNEW, AND IM ONLY 13
I got this! Quite easy...
I guess you know it or you don't. Slime mold is my favorite fruit by the way
OH NO! CAN IT BE TRUE! It's creeping up my arms, taking possesion of my body. I am no longer who I used to be...I...am...the mold. Maybe I'm intoxicated with Spider-man or something, anyway, great teaser. I liked the fact.
Kind of distgusting.
That's really very interesting.
woah!! the earth is so weird and unique! thanks for that bit of info!
I remember watching a video in high school science that showed the slime mold doing its thing. Ah, the memories...
nice herbalogy info, pretty cool
this belongs in the riddle section!
maybe, but i think it has much more t do with science
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