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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5760677" data-attributes="member: 57383">Slime Molds are a member of the Amoeba group, the Amoebozoa. They aren't fungi. Indeed, the Fungal Kingdom is more closely related to the Animal Kingdom than it is to the Amoebozoa.How about...Slime molds are a kind of amoeba with a complicated lifecycle. Each organism is a single-celled blob of protoplasm hereafter called an "amoeboid slime mold". These amoeboids seek out organic material to digest and reproduce by splitting in two. Slime mold can grow very quickly, a single amoeboid will become an amoeboid slime mold swarm within a few days, assuming there is enough food. Once the slime molds start to exhaust their food supply, the swarm (or swarms) conglomerate into a single mass called a "slug", which is hardy enough to seek out more sources of nourishment. Eventually, the slug forms itself into a "sporocarp", a rigid structure full of spores  that resembles a dried-out mushroom. When conditions are favorable, the sporocarp releases its spores, a single one of which can populate an entire new colony.</blockquote>