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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?
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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GebbieRose   
Jul 28, 2006
| Is that where they got the idea for "The Blob"???? Anyway, very interesting!  |
monkeygrl99
Jul 28, 2006
| Agreed |
terranmarine
Aug 18, 2006
| I knew I should have paid attention in science. |
vbguy101 
Aug 18, 2006
| I knew that!
"psuedoplasmodium", translatively is "fake plasma creature" using Latin word roots |
Roman
Sep 03, 2006
| Slime mold duh!
Has anyone read "The future is Wild" they have a really cool section on slime molds in the future! |
integrity
Oct 24, 2006
| Well, I did not know this and it very cool and interesting! Thanks for sharing.
And nice breakdown of the word. |
reptile5000
Nov 16, 2006
| UMMM....HUH!?
LOL, JK, I KNEW, AND IM ONLY 13 |
Luna_
Feb 13, 2007
| I got this! Quite easy... |
MookBeez 
May 31, 2007
| I guess you know it or you don't. Slime mold is my favorite fruit by the way  |
Kamazar
Jun 10, 2007
| 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. |
jjj055
Jun 16, 2007
| Kind of distgusting.  |
FutureMD
Jun 18, 2007
| That's really very interesting. |
princess2007
Jun 21, 2007
| woah!! the earth is so weird and unique! thanks for that bit of info!  |
RTPunk
Jul 06, 2007
| I remember watching a video in high school science that showed the slime mold doing its thing. Ah, the memories... |
Xosyaraiha
Aug 04, 2007
| nice herbalogy info, pretty cool  |
jsdodgers
Sep 27, 2007
| this belongs in the riddle section! |
medster99
Nov 09, 2007
| maybe, but i think it has much more t do with science |
Candi7
Jun 20, 2012
| cccccccccoooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllllll! |
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