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i think my favorite thing about birds is how unapologetically and effectively violent they are about anything they don’t like. and i’m not just talking about birds like geese and swans and eagles and magpies. even a flock of tiny little sparrows can beat the shit out of you if they decide you’re looking at them the wrong way. if the rapture happened and a chicken decided to take issue with it that chicken would fight god and i honestly can’t tell you for sure that god would win that fight.
technically yes, but it’s definitely not the “egg” you’re thinking of!
see, what we call the chicken “egg” is really a type of very large extracellular structure: it’s a wonder of engineering built BY cells, but it is not, in and of itself, a living thing.
no bird children were harmed in the production of this image.
however, if we zoom in on a fertilized egg a little bit….
see that weird little spot? that’s the REAL chicken egg!
this spot, called the “germinal disk”, IS actually made up of cells. it starts life as a single fertilized gamete cell, just like the one that made you!
at least no one ever called you a “germinal disk” before you had arms to slap them with.
this cell will use the energy stored in the egg structure to grow and divide and grow and divide until it forms a recognizable shape:
and WHAMMO.
so no, chicken eggs are NOT a single cell! but they do HOST the single cell that, given time and warmth, will eventually grow into a baby chicken.
You heard me! Red as a color does not show up naturally in nature! Anything that seems "red" was actually made by human experimentations or produced by the government! Hope this helps
