Question

As they flow over rotten logs as a fluid sheet, slime molds appear to lack any partitioning into cell units; however, slime molds do become cellular when they change form to produce spores. Also, the surface tissue of some parasitic flatworms are a "syncytium" or layer of living material that contains many nuclei and cell organelles but lacks partitioning by cell membranes. These tissues consume food and produce wastes. Should the tissues of the slime molds or the flatworms described above be considered part of living organisms?

Answer 1

Answer:

Since cells are utilized at a point or the other in the organism life we can say the general concept of life-is-cellular holds and abandon the cell membrane partitions notion

Explanation:

where the metabolic processes occur that keep the organism alive is the cellular level of an organism (the general concept of life-is-cellular)