### fungus:

Slime mold
* All slime molds are heterotrophs.
* Most slime molds feed upon dead and decaying materials
  - live in the shade, as on rocks, leaves, or rotting tree trunks
* Some slime molds are cellular and some are acellular.
* are a primary form of fungus-like protists
  - able to move
  - another type of nuisance fungus
  - common on turf, strawberries, or in plant beds with high organic matter
  - considered to be heterotrophs
  - different from the type of molds that are fungi
  - essentially macroscopic amoebas
* are fungi that grow on decaying organic matter
  - play key roles in recycling organic matter
  - half fungus and half bacteria
  - like other fungi in that they reproduce by spores
  - nonparasitic
  - nonphototrophic motile cells
  - plasmodial fungi that live in decaying wood or litter
  - primitive eukaryotes whose appearance is that of human white cells
* are primitive organisms that appear as crusty spores enveloping grass blades
  - are considered fungi
  - feed on bacteria, other fungi and dead organic matter
  - relatively easy to identify down to species
  - single multinuclear cells
  - typically unicellular
* can actually move or flow across soil or plant surfaces seeming to engulf the area
* causes damage
  - little damage
* exist both as individual amoeboid cells and aggregate communities.
* feed on bacteria, other fungi and decaying organic matter in the soil.
* have two life cycle stages.
* is funguses.
* live as separate cells most of their lives, feeding on bacteria.
* live in damp soil and the moist, decaying bark of rotting trees
  - soils and decaying plant material
  - moist soil and on decaying plants
  - somewhat variable habitats all over the world
* look like dog vomit and can be white to cream colored as well as yellow and pink.
* occur during wet weather throughout the spring, summer, and fall.
* play an ecological role similar to that of fungi
  - key roles in recycling organic material
* pose a problem for the field of taxonomy.
* primitive organism that has properties of both an amoeba and a fungus.
* represent the characteristics of the fungus- like protists.
* reproduce asexually by sporulation.
* takes many forms.
* use grass blades for elevation into wind currents in order to spread.

Slime mould
* are a very primitive form of fungus
  - saprophytic protists
* crowd of amoebas, which assemble in beautiful spiral patterns.
* possess animal like as well as fungi like character.
* start out as amoebalike cells hunting for food in damp habitats.

### fungus | slime mould:

Myxomycete
* are totally harmless things that have characteristics of both animals and fungi.
* slime mould

Stinkhorn
* also use an animal vector to disperse spores.
* are a folk remedy against cancer in Eastern Europe.

### fungus:

Toadstool
* Some toadstools contain poison
  - virulent poison
* are generally very tough corals, but they can be irritated or injured by some others
  - mushrooms
  - poisonous
* are the reproductive phase of certain soil fungi, comparable to the flowers of plants
  - structures that some fungi use to reproduce by producing spores
  - toxic substances
* get nourishment.
* includes basidiocarps
  - cell membranes
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - hyphae
  - myceliums
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* is agaric
* occur under ideal temperature and moisture conditions.