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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How are single-celled organisms so big?

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 55 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] darthsid@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You’re wrong, my brain is the largest single cell organism

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

How do you do, Mr amoeba

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's the biggest cell I've seen since my first phone 25 years ago!

[–] force@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

i remember this, the forbidden grape

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

And technically there are even larger individual cells, such as adipocytes or myocytes.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Ostrich eggs. Single cell, though different since it's a haploid cell.