I was told to submit a question to Askascientist.org and relay their reply. I have not heard back from them. I had asked, “If a yoke of a chicken egg is an example of a large cell, does it have all of the organelles other eukaryotic cells have? Does the yoke have a nucleus, Golgi bodies, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, and ribosomes?   If a yoke does indeed have all these parts, are they microscopic? I would think so. Are the organelles as small as organelles in other cells? If so, does that mean there is just a lot of cytoplasm used as filler?  If the egg is a sex cell, I would think it has half of the number of chromosomes as the bird’s other cells, right? When it is fertilized, does it become a ‘whole’ cell until it begins to divide? I am curious. I just do not get the whole yolk is a cell thing.”

This question was too big to submit. I shortened it to ask, “If a yoke of a chicken egg is an example of a large cell, does it have all of the organelles other eukaryotic cells have? Are the organelles as small as organelles in other cells? If so, does that mean there is just a lot of cytoplasm used as filler?” I was able to successfully submit this series of questions, but as I have said, I did not receive a response.

I decided to try once again. This time I asked a simpler question, one related to genetics. “Is liking the taste of brussel sprouts genetic?”  We shall see if they respond.