ARE SLIME MOLD SLUGS MULTI-CELLULAR ORGANISMS?

[charles brough]

I am referring to the way amoeba come together and form into "bodies" which move to a new location and form a stalk with "seed".

I understand there are mold cells that do this as well.

The indistinct area between unicellular and multi-cellular organisms is to me a fascinating subject. Sponges and enomoes (sp?) come to mind. Also jellyfish. Then there exists viruses.

But we can even consider societies as social organisms .l . .

charles, http://humanpurpose.simplenet.com

[Dr.Stein]

As what I read, slime mold is a colony

[AstusAleator]

Yep, it's a well-coordinated colony. Pretty interesting, especially when spore-forming time comes, and some of them have to sacrifice themselves to become the stem of the sporangium.