Slime mold
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Slime molds are a variety of small or microscopic organisms in different groups. They have both single-celled and multicellular forms during their life cycle, the individual cells coming together to f
Comatricha nigra (Myxogastria) with developing fruiting bodies (sporangia)
Lycogala epidendrum was the first slime mold to be discussed scientifically, by Thomas Panckow in 1654.
Stemonitis shows stalked sporangia for airborne spore dispersal.
Diachea leucopodia
Amoeba
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An amoeba or ameba, often called an amoeboid, is a type of cell or unicellular organism with the ability to alter its shape, primarily by extending and retracting pseudopods. Amoebae do not form a sin
Clockwise from top right: Amoeba proteus, Actinophrys sol, Acanthamoeba sp., Nuclearia thermophila., Euglypha acanthophora, neutrophil ingesting bacteria.
Amoeba phagocytosis of a bacterium
Foraminifera have reticulose (net-like) pseudopods, and many species are visible with the naked eye.
Trophozoites of the pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica with ingested red blood cells