slime mold
noun
: any of a group (such as Myxomycetes) of organisms formerly held to be lower fungi but now often considered protists that exist vegetatively in usually moist habitats as mobile plasmodia and reproduce by spores
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The team engineered yeast chimeras that had apoptotic enzymes from across the eukaryotic world: from mustard plants, slime molds, humans and the parasite that causes leishmaniasis.
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Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
When researchers from Japan and Hungary placed a slime mold at one end of a maze and a pile of oat flakes at the other, the slime mold did what slime molds do, exploring every possible option for tasty resources.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
From a slime mold measuring just one millimeter tall to a moth resting on a window, the images honored in the Close-Up Photographer of the Year contest draw attention to nature’s little details and spotlight tiny animals that most people would probably walk right past.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
The physical science building is nestled in a forest, where slime molds bloom and trees tilt their leaves in obedience to their own circadian clocks.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
The mass on the ground in the photo looks like dog vomit slime mold that is starting to dry up.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
But in the 1930s seagrass meadows from North Carolina to Canada were practically eradicated, likely the result of a plague of slime mold disease combined with a devastating 1933 hurricane.
—Shane Gross; Text By Katherine Harmon Courage, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
The spores are then dispersed to create new dog slime mold patches.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
Along with the usual culprits like roaches and dead flies, county health inspectors last month cited eateries for infractions that included slime mold and bio-slime.
—Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 1 Sep. 2023
Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
When researchers from Japan and Hungary placed a slime mold at one end of a maze and a pile of oat flakes at the other, the slime mold did what slime molds do, exploring every possible option for tasty resources.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
From a slime mold measuring just one millimeter tall to a moth resting on a window, the images honored in the Close-Up Photographer of the Year contest draw attention to nature’s little details and spotlight tiny animals that most people would probably walk right past.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
The physical science building is nestled in a forest, where slime molds bloom and trees tilt their leaves in obedience to their own circadian clocks.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
The mass on the ground in the photo looks like dog vomit slime mold that is starting to dry up.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
But in the 1930s seagrass meadows from North Carolina to Canada were practically eradicated, likely the result of a plague of slime mold disease combined with a devastating 1933 hurricane.
—Shane Gross; Text By Katherine Harmon Courage, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
The spores are then dispersed to create new dog slime mold patches.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
Along with the usual culprits like roaches and dead flies, county health inspectors last month cited eateries for infractions that included slime mold and bio-slime.
—Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 1 Sep. 2023
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