The slime mold life cycle includes a free-living single-celled stage and the formation of spores.
Most are microscopic those in the Myxogastria form larger plasmodial slime molds visible to the naked eye. Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to a polyphyletic assemblage of unrelated eukaryotic organisms in the Stramenopiles, Rhizaria, Discoba, Amoebozoa and Holomycota. Spore-forming organisms Comatricha nigra ( myxogastria) with developing fruiting bodies
