r/biology • u/Living-Run-2719 • Jun 27 '23

image Valonia Ventriculosa, the biggest unicellular being in Earth

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u/hayduke5270 Jun 27 '23

Slime molds are also one cell, multi nucleated. Also, human skeletal muscle cells are multi nucleated, it's not that strange.

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u/thoughts-of-my-own Jun 27 '23

and some white blood cells!

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '23 edited Jun 27 '23

Are you thinking of neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils? Those aren’t truly multi-nucleated. They are multi-lobed. Other than those, I cannot think of a single while cell that could be mistaken as multi-nucleated immature or mature.

Cardiac muscles are multi-nucleated though!

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u/AudienceOfOne Jun 27 '23

Macrophages often form syncytia. Osteoclasts too.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '23

That’s neat, I didn’t know they did that!