Question

if we observe only the plasmodium,we would certainly call slime mold an animal.if fruiting bodies and spores were the only parts we could see,we would call the organism a plant.is it plant or animal?can we really relate this strange organisms ti other living things? what was its evolutionary origin?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Slime mold is not a plant or animal. It's not a fungus.Slime mold, in fact, is a soil-dwelling amoeba

Explanation:

• Slime mold is not a plant or animal. It's not a fungus, though it sometimes resembles one. Slime mold, in fact, is a soil-dwelling amoeba, a brainless, single-celled organism, often containing multiple nuclei.

• It doesn't have a chlorophyll like pigment of it's own, hence is not autotrophic like plants.

• It ingulfs dead plant leaves, and rottening stuffs on the ground of the forest etc. just like an amoeba and grows in size.

• When the worse conditions are coming then it starts to form fruiting bodies to develop spores which could indure the tough times.

• The traits that slime molds share in common, like making spores, may have first evolved as they came ashore. The ancestors of Dictyostelium may have evolved the ability to form slugs and stalks to get those spores out of the ground, so that they'd have a better chance to spread.

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