Name the vegetative part of the thallus in slime moulds.
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Structure of the thallus. In almost all fungi the hyphae that make up the thallus have cell walls. (The thalli of the true slime molds lack cell walls and, for this and other reasons, are classified as protists rather than fungi.) A hypha is a multibranched tubular cell filled with cytoplasm.
Slime moulds were formerly included amongst mycetozoa or fungus-animals. However, they ... (iv) The slime moulds live usually amongst decaying vegetation.
Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms that can live freely as single cells, but can aggregate together to form multicellular reproductive structures. Slime molds were formerly classified as fungi but are no longer considered part of that kingdom.