Ombudsman means citizen representative. They investigate reported complaints, report findings and help achieve resolutions. They can help one person resolve a problem, address issues that affect several residents or work to change a systemic problem.mbudsman means citizen representative. They investigate reported complaints, report findings and help achieve resolutions. They can help one person resolve a problem, address issues that affect several residents or work to change a systemic problem.
But when food and water are scarce, the mass separates into smaller blobs. The Plasmodium forms stalks topped by sphere-like fruiting bodies that contain spores that are carried by the rain or wind to new locations. Cellular slime molds also produce spores, but these germinate into amoeba-like cells. The cells happily go their individual ways, as long as food and water are available.
Resterilize the bacteriological loop and use it in the same manner as above to transfer mature slime mold fruiting bodies and spores to the same well or small region of the petri dish where the bacteria have been placed. Label the dish with your name and date, and place the dish in a protected area of the lab. The optimum temperature range for growth of the slime mold is 22-24oC (room temperature) and optimum relative humidity is 70-75%. The spores will germinate, releasing myxamoebae that will increase by mitosis and feed on the E. coli.