...WHICH CAME FIRST?
THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG?
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2006-08-10 11:17:38 · 8 answers · asked by elitebran68 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
This question appears regularly in the question file, so let's take a shot at it.
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.
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2006-08-10 11:59:24 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Beba♥ 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Definitely chicken. The chicken was either evolved into a chicken, then layed an egg, or was created by God, and then layed an egg.
2006-08-10 12:49:34 · answer #2 · answered by quepie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Aristotle, the chicken. According to Aristotle, actuality takes precendence over (comes first before) potentiality. Eggs become chickens, chickens do not become eggs (they lay them, they don't become them). Therefore an egg is a chicken in potentiality, a chicken is a chicken in actuality. Therefore the chicken came first.
2006-08-10 15:31:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg. It's not a chicken unless/until it was born from an egg.
2006-08-10 11:23:14 · answer #4 · answered by Catspaw 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the chicken came when it had the egg...lol
2006-08-10 11:23:39 · answer #5 · answered by elchavoguapo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Easy!!
God created all the animals, so he must have created the chicken first.
2006-08-10 11:21:15 · answer #6 · answered by Mikey 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Chicken, because god created it :P
2006-08-10 11:31:19 · answer #7 · answered by WhiteHat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
...why EAT CHICKEN IF ITS A DUMB ANIMAL WITHOUT A BRAIN??
2006-08-14 05:42:36 · answer #8 · answered by NEMESIS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋