They never undergo meiosis and do not produce mitotic spindles during cell division. Foraminifera Foraminiferans have slender, granular pseudopods used to capture food than for movement. The pseudopods poke out through holes in the test where they may touch and form a netlike structure to capture food. They contain numerous nuclei and are mostly marine. England's White Cliffs of Dover are made of deposits of these organisms dating from ancient times.
Reproduction varies from none to a complex life cycle containing mitosis and meiosis.
Cellular Slime Molds Members of this phylum combine characteristics of fungi and the amoeba. Since the fungus-like features are readily observable they were first studied by mycologists. During good times they move gathering food like an amoeba, but when the going gets rough they settle down and take on a fungus-like existence and produce fruiting bodies. These organisms live in the soil eating as they go. When their food supply becomes restricted they send out chemical signals attracting others of their species and for a large pseudoplasmodium .