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Cellular slime molds are usually a single cell. A. True B. False

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Wiki explains it much better than I can: Slime molds can generally be divided into two main groups. 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. See heterokaryosis. By contrast, /cellular slime molds spend most of their lives as individual unicellular protists/, but when a chemical signal is secreted, they assemble into a cluster that acts as one organism.

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