2006-07-25 05:09:18 · 13 answers · asked by bowl 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
egg.
why?
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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.
2006-07-25 05:11:58 · answer #1 · answered by Em 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've answered this before.
evolutionist: egg, because dinosaur eggs came before chickens/hens evolved
creationist: hen, God created the hen/chicken to produce eggs
2006-07-25 17:24:04 · answer #2 · answered by krackocloud 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the respondents are just mot thinking...!
The egg of course...
If the hen came first, then there had to be a cock as well...
2006-07-25 12:19:17 · answer #3 · answered by Wrobinhood 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hen, obviously, because nothing good ever came about without some female putting work into it...lol, just kidding. :)
2006-07-25 12:36:46 · answer #4 · answered by ohevshalomel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Egg!
In short:
Birds evolved from dinosaurs crawling out of eggs...
A more detailed answer can be found on wikipedia (see link below)
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A CNN article on May 26, 2006 featured an analysis, according to which the egg came first. The key criteria on which CNN bases its answer, involving relatively recent findings from reproductive and evolutionary biology, are identical to several of those cited in the prior analysis.
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2006-07-25 12:25:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
clearly the hen came first because it would have evolved from some sort of dinosaur, thus making the chicken
2006-07-25 12:16:03 · answer #6 · answered by clarinetgirl_101 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to the bible, the hen came first. God created animals, not embryos
2006-07-25 12:13:41 · answer #7 · answered by vanilla_bean_dream 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken....it crossed the road long before the first egg was laid.
2006-07-25 12:43:22 · answer #8 · answered by Coo coo achoo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see this question posted on here EVERY SINGLE DAY.
The chicken.
2006-07-25 13:07:14 · answer #9 · answered by Green-Eyed Gal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with myrealitycheck answer!@
2006-07-25 12:19:10 · answer #10 · answered by nswblue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋