multinucleate

Examples of multinucleate in the following topics:

• Cell Structure, Metabolism, and Motility

  • Still other protists are composed of enormous, multinucleate, single cells that look like amorphous blobs of slime, or in other cases, similar to ferns.
  • Many protist cells are multinucleated; in some species, the nuclei are different sizes and have distinct roles in protist cell function.

• Protist Life Cycles and Habitats

  • Plasmodial slime molds are composed of large, multinucleate cells and move along surfaces like an amorphous blob of slime during their feeding stage .
  • Haploid spores develop into amoeboid or flagellated forms, which are then fertilized to form a diploid, multinucleate mass called a plasmodium.
  • The brightly-colored plasmodium in the inset photo is a single-celled, multinucleate mass.

• Rhizaria

  • The diploid phase is multinucleate, and after meiosis fragments to produce new organisms.

• Cell Types in Bones

  • The cell responsible for bone resorption, or breakdown, is the osteoclast, which is found on bone surfaces, is multinucleated, and originates from monocytes and macrophages (two types of white blood cells) rather than from osteogenic cells.

• Archaeplastida

  • In addition, some chlorophytes exist as large, multinucleate, single cells.

• Amoebozoa and Opisthokonta

  • Plasmodial slime molds are composed of large, multinucleate cells that move along surfaces like an amorphous blob of slime during their feeding stage.

• Phylum Nematoda

  • The epidermis can be either a single layer of cells or a syncytium, which is a multinucleated cell formed from the fusion of uninucleated cells.

• Muscle Tissues and Nervous Tissues

  • Cardiac muscle cells have striations, but, unlike the multinucleate skeletal cells, they have only one nucleus.