does the white blood cell have more than one nucleus or only one large nucleus?
It appears to only have one, though its shape depends on the type of white blood cell, have a look at the table on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_blood_cell#Overview_table
white blood cells is a whole "family" of cells. i believe that u refer to neutrophils - whic are a major componenet of the innate immune system. they are sometimes called PMN - poly-morpho-nuclear - as they have one contiguous highly lobulated nucelus. in a cross section u may see 5 segments 0 which appear to be unconnected but actually are all part of a polymorphonoclear. actually the number of segments attest to the cell maturity, not enough segments - too young a cell
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