Plasmodium (life cycle)
Structure
A plasmodium is an amoeboid, multinucleate and naked mass of cytoplasm that contains many diploid nuclei. The resulting structure, a coenocyte, is created by many nuclear divisions without the process of cytokinesis, which in other organisms pulls newly-divided cells apart. In some cases, the resulting structure is a syncytium, created by the fusion of cells after division.Under suitable conditions, plasmodia differentiates and forms fruiting bodies bearing spores at their tips.
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