Explain why an egg is considered to be unicelular.

membrane and everything else inside is considered the cell, it can be said that it is a single cell. Then, the chicken egg deserves its reputation as the largest cell. If, however you consider the yolk and the albumen (the egg white), separate structures, then eggs are not a single cell.

Explanation:

Short One ovum = one cell = single cell (Latin: unam cellulam), from which we get uni-cellular. ... The zygote resulting from a successful fertilization of a single egg cell (a living unicellular organism), by a single sperm cell (also a living unicellular organism), is also a living unicellular organism

a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.