Protoplasmic

... of water, the odds are that slime molds...will germinate in as little as 15 minutes... Within a few days, a glistening mass of active slime mold protoplasmic material, looking something like the veins of a leaf will appear. ( and I can scan the pic and download if any one wants to see it) This ...

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... movement or cytoplasmic streaming has yet to be fully understood, however there are many theories as to how it all comes about. I refered to the protoplasmic extentions of the plasmodium as pseudopodia, I do believe I was wrong in that terminology. In Jahns book they are refered to as "myxopodia," ...

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... "false feet." This is known as "amoeboid movement," which is not too uncommon in some other microorganisms. The amoeba makes a protoplasmic extention of itself and the rest of the cell flows into that extension to but it simply. Although movement by eruptive waves of protoplasm ...

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... a "plasmodium." These plasmodium are quite large, they are multinucleate due to the large number of amoebo-flagellates that make up the protoplasmic mass and they are easily recognized, as I show in the image below of a "plasmodium" collected in a plastic petri dish. When the ...

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... split into several families or subfamilies because of their difference in form and texture of the test or shell. Locomotion is accomplished by protoplasmic flow or what is called ameboid movement, which is also exhibited in many other protozoa which are not ameba. I could cite many different ...

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