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coenocyte
a mass of protoplasm containing many nuclei and enclosed by a cell wall: occurs in many fungi and some algae -
fungus
any of a diverse group of eukaryotic single-celled or multinucleate organisms that live by decomposing and absorbing the organic material in which they grow, comprising the mushrooms, molds, mildews, smuts, rusts, and yeasts, and classified in the kingdom Fungi or, in some classification systems, in the division Fungi (Thallophyta) of the kingdom Plantae. -
heterokaryosis
condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei. -
nucleate
having a nucleus. -
parasexual reproduction
reproduction by recombination of genes from genetically dissimilar nuclei within binucleate or multinucleate cells, as in filamentous fungi. -
plasmodium
Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.