2006-07-04 05:38:56 · 30 answers · asked by *~~*Gracie*~~* 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Chicken.
2006-07-04 05:46:00 · answer #1 · answered by tjmccomb 1 · 6⤊ 2⤋
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.
"The egg came first.
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.
2006-07-04 13:04:48 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
catch 22..Catch 22 situation where something cannot happen until a second thing does, and the second thing cannot happen until the first does. For example, a person might have trouble finding a job without work experience, but to get work experience he/she must have a job."Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first.""Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."
2006-07-04 12:45:39 · answer #3 · answered by Cathy L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg. It was layed by an almost (but not quite) chicken. The egg had a small genitic difference from its parent that caused it to be the first modern chicken egg.
2006-07-04 12:41:56 · answer #4 · answered by DonSoze 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What came first was the idea of a chicken. Everything that is manifested on Earth, first is an idea, which then in turn is manifested on Earth through Universal Law. Divinity had to have an Idea and used Imagination to decide on the form of the chicken-thought!
2006-07-04 13:42:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Egg! If the development of life is bought about through each next generation being better that the last then the egg would have to be laid then hatched!
2006-07-04 20:30:10 · answer #6 · answered by lee p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken, God created animals, not eggs.
2006-07-04 12:42:37 · answer #7 · answered by Mae^^ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Beginning! To answer this question honestly, the rooster has to come, or the egg is not fertilized, and you would have no chicken.
2006-07-04 12:42:25 · answer #8 · answered by Insight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
had to be the chicken or who would sit on the egg?
2006-07-04 16:08:14 · answer #9 · answered by joe b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken.
2006-07-04 14:55:04 · answer #10 · answered by Marie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋