How to Use slime mold in a Sentence
slime mold
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Kutub Uddin spotted this line of alien-like slime molds on a fallen tree.
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Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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This includes powdery mildew, white and gray molds like botrytis, slime mold, and black spot, Bradley says.
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Michelle Mastro,
The Spruce,
23 May 2026
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But for all creatures, from deep-sea microbes and slime molds to trees and humans, water is nonnegotiable.
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Dan Samorodnitsky,
Quanta Magazine,
11 Aug. 2025
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Uddin found these blueberry-like spheres – the reproductive parts of a slime mold, each just one-to-two millimetres in diameter – in a nearby forest.
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Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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In 2017 two computer scientists demonstrated that this paradox can explain the varied life strategies of slime molds, which can alternate between a solitary, nomadic life and a stationary colony.
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Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
16 Oct. 2025
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In organisms that reproduce via the union of types—this group also includes yeasts and slime molds—partners are functionally equivalent and the exchange of genetic material is symmetrical, an arrangement called isogamy.
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Elizabeth Kolbert,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
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