What came first, the Chicken or the Egg ?

Answer 1

The chicken!

Genesis 1:21 So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

God would know for sure ya know!

Answer 2

Which came first, chicken or egg?

It does sound puzzling at first, but how much does one have to think until one realizes that both chicken and egg must necessarily have come from something that is neither a chicken nor an egg? This answer was knowable centuries before biology came about, yet people assumed there was some unsolvable mystery behind the issue.

The modern chicken is generally believed to be a descendant of "Archaeopteryx", the oldest known bird. This 150 million year old resident of the Jurassic period laid eggs, and at some point of time, evolved into an animal that was one generation away from being a proper chicken.

DNA mutations occur in the early stages of life of organisms. As you know, when new cells divide, the DNA within the nucleus separates nucleotides and duplicates, then two new helix are formed. The amino acids responsible for mitosis are prone to make mistakes to the genetic architecture-- a beautiful system of flaws that cause evolution and diversity in species. It's like the reason why children will look like their parents, but not approximately, they are a combination of both parent's ancestor genetic history and the result of new combinations in the DNA helix.

So according to fossil research, before the chicken was the "proto-chicken" and this bird was almost chicken, but not quite. Well this proto-chicken laid an egg with a mutation, and the interior change of the DNA was enough that the exterior of the new bird could be thought of as a new species.

The first chicken had to hatch from a chicken egg to qualify to be a chicken, so the egg came first."

Answer 3

It's evolution, baby.

Many animals--dinosaurs for example--were laying eggs long before there was any such thing as a chicken. In order for the chicken to come about, it had to start with a different animal: an animal that laid eggs. Eventually, through mutation and hereditary changes, an animal that was not quite a chicken had to lay the egg that gave the world its very first actual chicken.

So what came first? Say it with me now: the EGG.

Go and tell everyone you know. I say we put an end to this silly question once and for all.

Answer 4

It has been proven that the egg actually came first. In order for the chicken to exsist it had to evolve over time. As time went by, a species of bird would lay eggs and slowly the embryos in the eggs created hatchlings that were able to survive the ever changing environment. Then these hatchlings would make more eggs with evolving embryos and so on until we have the delicious and amusing bird we named the chicken. Eventually that will evolve, too.

Answer 5

The tuna fish came first.

Just as a tuna fish egg was about to hatch it washed up upon the shore where it was adopted by a duck. Every time this ugly duckling (the adopted tuna fish) got into the water it tried to swim away but the duck would snatch it up fearing it would drown from staying under too long.

Eventually, this ugly duckling fell in love with an abandoned swan whom all the other ducks had ridiculed, being an ugly duckling herself as well. They got married and the swan laid a golden (brown) egg. It was on Easter Day that the egg hatched and low and behold, there was the first spring chicken.

And that's why they call tuna the "Chicken of the Sea".

Hey, tell 'em Charlie sent ya!

Answer 6

Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote.

The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.

Answer 7

The Big Bang scrambled all the eggs and we've been playing "chicken little" ever since. The Bible says God created the birds of the air, so I guess the chicken came in some form.

Answer 8

Depends on if you're a Creationist or an Evolutionist. If you're a Creationist, then it was the chicken, because God created the first animals alive, not as embryos. If you're an Evolutionist, then the egg, because the first chicken who had evolved to what we recognize today as a chicken would have been born from an egg of the animal it evolved from.

Answer 9

Well, Studies have shown that life started with a single cell organism. This was figured by the adaptation that they grew to multiple cells which were mammals. So the correct answer would be "The chicken came before the egg.

Answer 10

Depends on how you look at it. Either the chicken came first and laid the egg or if you believe in evolution a reptile was already laying the eggs and they began to evolve into birds over time.

Answer 11

to me that's an easy one! -the chicken! of course.
if you are into the bible creation well when god created all life human and the animals he created the chicken just like he created the horse. he wouldn't just create an egg when he created so many other animals. the egg is just a different form of reproduction he gave that and other animals like the snake or fish also from eggs as the horse and cat are born live.
-an interesting fact to note though is that humans start as an egg then are born live- hummmmmmm.