Consider the following statements about slime moulds.
(I) Plasmodium is found in acellular slime moulds.
(II) Pseudo plasmodium is found in cellular slime moulds.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
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Statement (I) is true: Plasmodium refers to the vegetative, feeding stage of acellular (or plasmodial) slime moulds. It is a multinucleate mass of protoplasm that lacks a cell wall and moves as a single large unit.
Statement (II) is true: Pseudoplasmodium (also called a "slug") is a multicellular structure formed by the aggregation of individual amoeboid cells in cellular slime moulds. Unlike a true plasmodium, each cell in a pseudoplasmodium retains its individual cell membrane.
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