Q. Which one of the following is a slime mould?
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Slime mould shows the characteristics of both protozoans and fungi. They usually occur in decaying plant material and are cosmopolitan. The normal (active, growing, feeding) phase consists of a multinucleate amoeboid mass or sheet (Plasmodium), i.e., vegetative phase. It forms fruiting structures (sporangia) with one to many spores at the head of a stalk. Physarum is one of the representatives of the group.