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Which of the following statements is not true for slime moulds?
Option: 1
Acellular slime moulds have plasmodial body while cellular forms have amoeboid body
Option: 2
Slime moulds lack cell wall
Option: 3
Slime moulds are saprotrophic as well as autotrophic in their mode of nutrition
Option: 4
Slime moulds may undergo both sexual and asexual reproduction.
Answers (1)
Decomposer Protista- Slime Moulds -
- These protists possess characters of both fungi and animals.
- They are found on dead and decaying matter.
- Slime moulds lack chlorophyll and their mode of nutrition is saprotrophic.
- These do not have a cell wall. The outermost layer is the cell membrane.
- Reproduction may occur both sexually or asexually.
- Slime mould aggregate to form a free-living thalloid body called Plasmodium. It is a wall-less mass of multinucleate protoplasm covered by slime.
- Under unfavourable conditions, walled spores are formed on the plasmodia.
- Slime moulds can be acellular or cellular. Acellular forms have plasmodial body while cellular forms have the amoeboid body
- Examples include acellular slime moulds- Physarum, Physarella, Fuligo and cellular moulds- Dictyostelium.
-Slime moulds are saprophytic in their mode of nutrition.
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