There are even single celled organisms which will prey upon and eat multicellular animals.
[0] https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/10/24/gravity-plays-role...
"The allocation of all metabolic resources to maintenance purposes limits the size of the smallest prokaryotes and largest unicellular eukaryotes, whereas an inability to meet the ever-increasing biosynthesis rates limits the largest prokaryotes and smallest unicellular eukaryotes. Metabolic constraints for larger eukaryotes are relieved by alternative reproductive strategies and multicellularity."
> Case in point: a giant bacterium called Thiomargarita magnifica can extend about one centimeter in length, so large that it can be seen by the naked eye. It does so by breaking the surface area-to-volume rule, filling between 65–80 percent of its internal volume with an empty vacuole. In other words, it pushes most of its molecules to the cell periphery, thus shortening diffusion distances.
There is also a captioned image of bubble algae in the post.
Nice paradox
> The entire cell contains several cytoplasmic domains, with each domain having a nucleus and a few chloroplasts.
Yeah. That's probably it. Really, it probably is the right answer.
It turns out the oocyte is the single cell inside the egg, which for birds is significantly larger than a typical cell. So in that respect, the cell in a bird egg is very large. However, compared to the egg itself, it's tiny. The yolk and whites in the egg are all to provide nutrients as it grows, if fertilized.
From Wikipedia:
> The yolk is not living cell material like protoplasm, but largely passive material
I could be off base here though, I'm really channeling grade 9 bio class from decades ago!
Or does that work with diffusion too?
edit: Huh. Actually not a bad read. It even mentions ' On Growth and Form' which is interesting, if outdated. There are more modern texts like 'Shapes', 'Flow', and 'Branches' by Philip J Ball.