It's a phenominal Question thats never been answerd.
2006-07-26 12:11:06 · 17 answers · asked by evil 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Which came first - the chicken or the egg? "The chicken" came first - in the sentence of the question. If the question is phrased differently, the answer is different.
2006-07-26 14:15:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-07-30 09:53:13 · answer #2 · answered by ellysee2006 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Self Explanatory! Chicken makes egg, therefore chicken came first.
2006-07-27 01:59:16 · answer #3 · answered by it's_me!! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken. On the arc with Noah, there were 2 of each animals, therefore they has to mate to get an egg.
2006-07-26 19:16:15 · answer #4 · answered by kitabanana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Aristotle, actuality takes precedence (comes first) over potentiality. Eggs become chickens, chickens do not become eggs (they lay them, they don't become them). Therefore eggs are chickens in potentiality, chickens are chickens in actuality, therefore chickens come first.
2006-07-26 21:13:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken - God created animals - not eggs
2006-07-27 12:20:37 · answer #6 · answered by mlm1975 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the chicken. God created all the living creatures, in the book of Genesis.
2006-07-26 21:18:51 · answer #7 · answered by shepherd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chicken
2006-07-27 02:04:43 · answer #8 · answered by jc freak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Egg
2006-07-26 19:15:18 · answer #9 · answered by Karybdus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chicken
2006-07-26 19:14:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋