chicken egg

[estie]

Is a chicken egg really one large cell? I have been reading a lot of conflicting information on ths issue. Thanks!

[Gef]

Yes. The largest human cell is also the egg.

[Clanad]

... and the Ostrich egg is the largest single cell on Earth...

[Peter Pedant]

The yolk is really the one large cell.

The albumen is goop and just supplies water to the growing chick apparently

[mibn2cweus]

Unless fertilization and cell division has begun.

[estie]

Thanks peeps. I thought the blastodisc was the cell with all the organelles, and that the yolk and white were not really part of it. But I stand corrected.