2006-07-16 14:59:28 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
The egg. Plain and simple. The first chicken evolved from other birds, so the first chicken came from an egg. Just not from chicken parents.
2006-07-16 15:01:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In nature, living things evolve through changes in their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the first cell of a new baby chicken. This first cell divides innumerable times to form all of the cells of the complete animal. In any animal, every cell contains exactly the same DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote.
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. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.
Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. 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.
2006-07-16 22:25:38 · answer #2 · answered by Cindy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-07-19 15:16:44 · answer #3 · answered by Wolfie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being that a chicken is an actual cross breed of several animals, the egg did.
God created the birds of the SKY and the fish in the sea's.
Some birds evolved to land based birds like a chicken is. Man helped that evolution.
2006-07-16 22:31:01 · answer #4 · answered by lancelot682005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All chickens come from eggs, but not all eggs come from chickens. Therefore the egg came first.
2006-07-16 22:20:19 · answer #5 · answered by chilixa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken. God created the animals first not the eggs
2006-07-16 22:02:23 · answer #6 · answered by Sharon 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Egg of course. Before the chicken grows it must be hatched from the egg.
2006-07-16 22:49:32 · answer #7 · answered by ?Sweet Heart? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken and I can prove it. If the egg came first, what was sitting on it to keep it warm and make it hatch????
2006-07-23 19:45:47 · answer #8 · answered by agfreak90 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the Bible and in there it doesnt say the Lord created eggs firsts. It should be the chicken whose first.
2006-07-16 22:03:44 · answer #9 · answered by jox 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither, the dinosaurs were laying eggs long before the chickens.
2006-07-16 22:02:52 · answer #10 · answered by Dutch58 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋