Difference Between Multinucleate Cells & Plasmodium

[Soaring Crane]

Is Plasmodium an example of a syncytium, or is there a slight difference between the two terms?

Thank you.

 

[jim mcnamara]

syncytium: A large cell-like structure formed by the joining together of two or more cells.


Plasmodium falciparum - single celled protist causes malaria. It is not a synctium.
plasmodium (lower case) is the macroscopic stage of a slime mold - which is a syncytium.

This is unfortunate, but you need to watch capitalization.