[shatner]AN-ti-BOD-ies![/shatner]
Thanks for all the answers! It’s pretty cool, I think, that there are macroscopic versions of microscopic things around. I might go fry up a couple of cells for breakfast.
Good point.
Well that doesn’t sound like a fun way to do it at all!
Back-to-back and belly-to-belly. We don’t give a damn 'cause we’ve done that already…
Red blood cells are normally considered legitimate cells despite a complete lack of chromosomes (and therefore any reproductive capacity).
Neurons (esp. the axon segments) can be quite long. E.g., longer ones in humans go from the lower spine to the toes. In giraffes, the entire length of the neck. I don’t know what the volume versa an ovum is though. Anyone have the info?
Remember folks, it’s length not thickness (or some such nonsense).
Well, I assume it feels good, or they wouldn’t do it, right? But, y’know, IANAChicken.
Since axons are typically only a micrometer in diameter, and the neuron soma perhaps 25 micrometers in diameter, the volume of even the longest neurons is going to be far less than a bird ovum.
Why am I eversoslightly squicked by the idea of eating a yummy fried or scrambled cackleberry now that I know it’s unicellular, even though chowing down on multicellular animal and/or vegetable matter doesn’t faze me in the slightest?
Hey! I just figured something! Three eggs scrambled ARE multicellular! Nooooo problem…
No, but it does give us some insight about whether the chicken comes first. 