Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UxGrde1NDA. Typically, other YouTube videos on this slime mold queue up with this one, and you may wish to watch a couple of those as well.
Compare this plasmodial slime mold to Cladophora (a green alga typically making up pond scum). Make sure to describe why Heather Barnett considers this slime mold “semi-intelligent” and give an example of evidence presented in the video that supports this claim. Hypothesize some character that humans possess which you think shows a higher level of intelligence than slime molds would likely be capable of possessing. In other words, demonstrate how you are smarter than this slime mold. Determine and state the Eukaryotic Supergroup to which your assigned organism belongs. As an example, as previously mentioned the slime molds are mentioned as being in the supergroup Amoebozoa. Contrast Physarum with Cladophora by stating three specific characteristic features you found in your research that distinguish between Physarum and your assigned genus. Please cite all references.