2006-07-28 11:54:45 · 19 answers · asked by babydeer010 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
that question has been asked here over 37000 times
http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AgptoZYM8llA5qmu10_y058azKIX?p=chicken+or+egg
2006-07-28 14:21:16 · answer #1 · answered by Godzilla 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's actually funny because this was discussed in a Journal's editorial just a few months ago. If I can find the source I'll update this, but this question can be answered using genetic reasoning.
The chicken came first.
Reasoning:
Although the embryo inside of an egg represents a genetically different organism, the physical egg is derived from the female parent. As such, from a genetic standpoint, the embryo inside the egg is a chicken, but the egg in which it resides came from the progenitor species.
2006-07-28 22:54:16 · answer #2 · answered by GREG P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken came first with the egg already inside.
2006-08-01 04:12:07 · answer #3 · answered by ifawnzilla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken had to come first to lay the egg..
2006-07-28 19:01:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is very vely simple. It is the female egg which gets fertilized.Fetilization can be done in vitro or by some means which we do not understand.. So it is the female egg that is important in this question .
Your question may have be more inquisitive if it was asked how did The egg get Created.
You may have to go to Intelligent Design Theory for that description.
2006-07-28 22:01:24 · answer #5 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A deformed turkey egg begets a chicken, and the chicken lay an eggs.
2006-07-28 21:45:34 · answer #6 · answered by timer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the egg came first, two diff birds made the egg, resulting in a chicken, like how a horse and a donkey make an A*s
2006-07-28 19:56:17 · answer #7 · answered by Nneka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg--you can't have a chicken if it was never born..and it can't 'morph' from something into a chicken, therefore the egg came first.
2006-07-28 19:58:31 · answer #8 · answered by Kim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SIMPLE....
The first chickens would have been carnivorous and would have eaten any eggs they found laying around.....Therefore if the chicken laid the egg, and then ate it, the species would have died out. Thus, by simple Darwinian logic, it doesn't matter because the chicken as we know it, is extinct
2006-07-31 14:57:39 · answer #9 · answered by r s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would say the egg becuse b4 u can get a chicken, u have to have an egg.after that ur chicken can make more eggs then cont. the cycle.
2006-07-28 19:13:42 · answer #10 · answered by slims 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg.
2006-07-28 19:03:13 · answer #11 · answered by kano7_1985 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋