Bacteria
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The Odds of Dictyostelidia
The term slime mold refers to an informal group of single-celled organisms that are called slime molds because they look like mold. Dictyostelidia is a particular group of these slime molds and I think they're in amoeba, whatever that means,. They colonize an area and eat all the bacteria there. When they run out of bacteria to eat in an area, they all sort of blob together into a mobile form called a slugBecause it looks like a slug and they crawl off to more bacteria-laden pastures.
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