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To: PatrickHenry
Slime, all slime.

I didn't say anything about slime molds.

2,294 posted on 03/28/2002 12:14:56 PM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro;gore3000
From the link:

A second group, the cellular slime molds, spend most of their lives as separate single-celled amoeboid protists, but upon the release of a chemical signal, the individual cells aggregate into a great swarm. Cellular slime molds are thus of great interest to cell and developmental biologists, because they provide a comparatively simple and easily manipulated system for understanding how cells interact to generate a multicellular organism. There are two groups of cellular slime molds, the Dictyostelida and the Acrasida, which may not be closely related to each other.

Emphasis mine.

2,296 posted on 03/28/2002 12:35:51 PM PST by Junior
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