2006-07-23 15:44:59 · 27 answers · asked by levi 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The chicken evolved from something that was not a chicken, but a proto-chicken. So while the first chicken hatched from an egg, it did not hatch from a chicken's egg but a proto-chicken's egg. So the question needs to be refined. If you mean, "What came first, the chicken or the chicken egg", then the answer is of course the chicken, since only a chicken can lay a chicken egg. But if not, and you are only concerned about any egg, then the egg is the answer since egg-laying had been a trait of all chicken's ancestors for many millions of years.
2006-07-23 15:55:15 · answer #1 · answered by Scott R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My Answer: The egg
1) The egg came first because any female sex cell is called an egg.
2) An animal that was not a chicken laid the chicken egg which contained the first chicken. In this case the egg came first.
2006-07-24 09:50:37 · answer #2 · answered by Handsome 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question has been answered a countless number of times before. Please use the search function before asking a question.
A species is defined by it's genotype. Usually in animals, a genotype is inherited from the parents. However, the genotype of a zygote (fertilized ovum) or gametes (sperm, ovum) of the next generation can mutate in such a way that it is necessary to define a new species. It is not possible for identical mutations to occur beyond this point. Therefore, the chicken was defined by the time there was more than one cell within the egg.
In Layman's terms, the chicken egg came before the chicken. Also, there was at least one egg-laying species from which the chicken evolved, which means eggs in general also came before the chicken.
2006-07-24 01:31:39 · answer #3 · answered by hypa_dude 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg is a potential chicken. It follows that the chicken must have existed in order for the egg to know what to grow into.
At Denny's, if you order chicken and eggs, you usually get the eggs first.
2006-07-24 00:27:01 · answer #4 · answered by seefo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CHICKEN came first, it was created by God at the same time as other animals. To reproduce, the chicken lay eggs that is why we have these plenty of chickens laying EGGS nowadays.
2006-07-23 22:51:29 · answer #5 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the path of evolution.... something that was not quite a chicken laid an egg out of which emerged a chick...
So the egg came first.
2006-07-24 05:03:24 · answer #6 · answered by blind_chameleon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg. Dinosaurs, reptiles, fish, crustaceans etc. were laying eggs millions of years before the first chicken existed.
2006-07-23 23:24:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one that came out first is the egg. Chickens as we know it are birds. Evolution says that birds are the descendants of Archeopteryx, a kind of dinosaur. Since a dinosaur is a reptile and they have been laying eggs in their time, Archeopteryx had to lay eggs to commence the evolution of birds.
2006-07-23 22:54:47 · answer #8 · answered by k9 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Egg was first because what if an dinosaur laid and egg and it evolved to a chicken.
2006-07-27 11:10:11 · answer #9 · answered by ™ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the first chicken came with the first egg inside of it!!!
2006-07-23 22:50:22 · answer #10 · answered by Morgan T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋