slime mold

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• The finding comes from a team of Japanese and British researchers who observed that the slime mold connected itself to scattered food sources in a design that was nearly identical to Tokyo's rail system.

  Academic text (2010)

• Scientists who watched this slime mold spread out and form a network that mimicked the Toykorail system said the finding could have implications for network efficiency.

  Academic text (2010)

• What can engineers learn from the lowly slime mold?

  Academic text (2010)

• Social amoebas are also known as "cellular slime molds," but the name is a misnomer.

  Academic text (2007)

• This is a slime mold called Phiserum, and like other slime molds, it's just a giant cell that sends out tentacles to find food.

• They watched the slime mold self-organize, spread out, and form a network that was comparable in efficiency, reliability, and cost to the real-world infrastructure of Tokyo's train network.

  Academic text (2010)

• We then upped the ante for the slime molds by challenging them with the U-shaped trap problem to test their navigational ability in a more complex situation than foraging.

  Blog text (29)

• The slime mold spread across the forest floor, quickly breaking down decaying leaves.

• Researchers studied the behavior of slime mold to understand how these organisms find food.

• In a petri dish, the slime mold began to form intricate shapes as it searched for nutrients.

Synonyms

A

acellular slime mold

vsslime mold

• Specialized

9.9

One large soft mass of living material that moves and is not divided into separate cells

is a general organism term that can include other cellular organizations

T

true slime mold

vsslime mold

• Specialized

9.6

A soft mass of many cells that moves like an amoeba and feeds on decaying plants

is a single mass rather than a multicellular form

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology