ok what do you think came 1st the chicken or the egg please shed some light this one does my head in mayb some1 has a beter theory than me
2006-07-20 09:12:55 · 23 answers · asked by guilty_conscience_83 2 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
The Egg -
The evolutionery process defines a species (e.g 'Chicken') as an organism with specific traits.
It is clear that in order to evolve into a chicken, there must be mutative changes within the organism.
These changes, which lead to the first Chicken, take place at the reproductive stage. This happens when the egg is produced by two non-chickens.
The result of this is that the Egg comes first, and the first chicken is the result of the egg.
on the other hand:
A chicken and an egg are sitting in bed smoking cigarettes.
The egg says: "Well that answers that old question."
2006-07-20 09:15:37 · answer #1 · answered by Chris M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not this one again!! The egg of course, doesn't everyone know that? The chicken that came out of the egg has to be genetically the same as the egg it came out of; it's the same creature. However a bird that lays an egg can have a genetic difference to the egg it lays - mutation, evolution etc. Therefore the first chicken egg was laid by a bird that was not completely evolved into a chicken but was partly something else.
2006-07-20 16:18:10 · answer #2 · answered by Jude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL, my kiddos and I were just talking about this a few days ago. Our unofficial decision was, the chicken came first. In the bible, it says something like, "go forth, be fruitful and multiply;" the full grown chicken is better equipped to do that. Plus, a full grown chicken has to sit on and turn the egg for it to hatch, so poofing an egg into existence wouldn't do much good.
Where it gets complicated is if you think about evolution. At some point an Almost Chicken would have laid an egg containing an Actual Chicken...
2006-07-20 16:18:51 · answer #3 · answered by lotsayorks 4 · 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.
2006-07-20 16:51:36 · answer #4 · answered by Lipstick 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like the first answer to this question but I have to disagree, the egg would be attributed to the animal that had the egg, so the egg would be a pre-chicken egg, and a chick would come out of the egg which would be a chicken. So the chick would be the first chicken but it didn't come from a chiken egg, it came from whatever species laid the egg.
2006-07-20 16:32:13 · answer #5 · answered by Lady 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Kirsty Y, the question is quite answerable and is one area where the Creationists and Evolutionists agree. According to the Creationists, the chicken came first (vide Genesis 1:24). According to the Evolutionists, every living thing, including the first of a new species, gets its genes from its parent(s) and since the foetus in an egg already has its full complement of genes, it must have got them from a pre-existing chicken!
2006-07-20 16:27:09 · answer #6 · answered by Jellicoe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many more times? The chicken came on the egg.
2006-07-20 16:16:27 · answer #7 · answered by poppy vox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs are said to have laid eggs, so scientifically the answer is egg. Perhaps you should stick to wondering why the chicken crossed the road...just a thought, got a better theory?Dinosaurs with feathers, why did the primate swim across the river? because he was running away from one hell of a chicken ; )
2006-07-20 16:29:38 · answer #8 · answered by Brucie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The chicken. You could not get a chicken egg from any other creature. The chicken is/was the mutation of another creature and then laid the chicken egg which became my breakfast!
2006-07-20 16:16:59 · answer #9 · answered by Scott D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The logic reason would be like the chicken buy then it is easy to argue that the egg came first
2006-07-21 11:52:29 · answer #10 · answered by tommy g 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋