Which came first, the egg or the hen?

Answer 1

Well, Studies have shown that life started with a single cell organism. This was figured by the adaptation that they grew to multiple cells which were mammals. So the correct answer would be "The chicken came before the egg. The truth lies within the following equation. If you can figure this out then we shall all know. How many sea shells she sells down by the seashore x how many pickles peter piper really picked. lol

Answer 2

It does sound puzzling at first, but how much does one have to think until one realizes that both chicken and egg must necessarily have come from something that is neither a chicken nor an egg? This answer was knowable centuries before biology came about, yet people assumed there was some unsolvable mystery behind the issue.

The modern chicken is generally believed to be a descendant of "Archaeopteryx", the oldest known bird. This 150 million year old resident of the Jurassic period laid eggs, and at some point of time, evolved into an animal that was one generation away from being a proper chicken.

DNA mutations occur in the early stages of life of organisms. As you know, when new cells divide, the DNA within the nucleus separates nucleotides and duplicates, then two new helix are formed. The amino acids responsible for mitosis are prone to make mistakes to the genetic architecture-- a beautiful system of flaws that cause evolution and diversity in species. It's like the reason why children will look like their parents, but not approximately, they are a combination of both parent's ancestor genetic history and the result of new combinations in the DNA helix.

So according to fossil research, before the chicken was the "proto-chicken" and this bird was almost chicken, but not quite. Well this proto-chicken laid an egg with a mutation, and the interior change of the DNA was enough that the exterior of the new bird could be thought of as a new species.

Answer 3

Biological Answers

In this case, the egg is not assumed to be a chicken egg. In effect this changes the question to: "Which came first, a chicken or any egg".

From a cellular biology point of view this question can be answered quite easily. The egg came first because any female sex cell is called an egg.

If the egg is defined structurally as the hard shelled thing, and the chicken a feather covered animal, the answer is still simple. Evolutionary scientists believe the first hard shell egg was the amniotic egg laid around 300 million years ago, and was laid by the animal who was the link between amphibians and reptiles. One of the first dinosaurs that we know had feathers was the Archaeopteryx, and came much later. Modern birds would not arise until 150 million years ago, descending from theropod dinosaurs.

In this case, the first chicken must have been the mutated offspring of a proto-chicken that laid the egg containing the first true chicken. In any case, this creature hatched from a recognizable egg. After all, the question is purposefully ambiguous -- it is not, "Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?"

The crux of the matter is how to biologically define 'a chicken'. What level of genetic similarity or structural similarity determine whether an organism is a chicken? One can only define what was the first chicken after the fact, thus any definition of the first chicken becomes arbitrary. The question 'which came first?' ignores the complicated reality of speciation. The concept of species is an abstraction intended to categorize a broad swath of genomes and their subsequent phenomes. If one were to do away with approximate categories, each individual 'chicken' actually represents a unique genotype. Under this definition, if a 'chicken' possessing genome A were to lay an egg possessing genome B, then an egg of genome B is antecedent to an animal possessing genome B and that the parent--genome A--is antecedent to, yet different from the egg of genome B. Hence, in an absolute sense, the egg came before the 'chicken.'

According to the principles of speciation, neither the chicken nor the egg came first, because speciation does not occur in simple, obvious units. In fact, evolution is about a slow transition in an overall population. What qualifies as “chicken” (ignoring the many diverse modern types of chicken) involves a wide range of genetic traits (alleles) that are not encompassed in a single individual and continue to be modified from generation to generation.

The transition from non-chicken to chicken is a grey area in which several generations are involved, and therefore which includes many many chicken-and-egg events, with no one step representing the whole. Since the result of the process is an incomplete transition into various new characteristics rather than one single blueprint, a new species, "chicken", is only identified in hindsight when the species can be obviously identified as different from its ancestral stock.

Theological Answers

According to creationists who believe in Biblical inerrancy, birds were created "on the fifth day". Since there is no reference to the creation of eggs, they presumably were then made by chickens afterwards by the normal process. Therefore, the chicken came first.

Alternatively, for those who accept the intelligent design form of creationism, Eugene Volokh has noted that "In my experience, most creationists are also pro-life -- in which case, the egg is a chicken.

Answer 4

The laying of the egg came first, although what laid the egg may have not been quite a chicken, but enough to lay the single cell that maybe got zapped by a cosmic ray that caused the egg cell to turn into the first hen.
Wait. Then that would mean the egg came last. Or did it?
What was the question again?
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Answer 5

Im changing it to the chicken or egg question.

First, you realize that chicken is a name used to categorize similar but not all identical chickens.

Second, if you think evolution exists, chickens come from chicken -like-bird.

Third, at some point the chicken-like-bird gave birth to an egg that would eventually turn out to become the chicken. However, the parents of the egg are only chicken-like.

Hence the chicken egg came first. You realize tho that the chicken also had to have been successful in mating with the chicken-like birds or else they wouldn't survive after living its lifetime. However, species are defined as organism that can only reproduce with its own species. Hence, the problem lies in the human terms of 'species', 'chicken' and 'chicken-like-birds'

Answer 6

The rooster first. One dark night, when he woke up to crow at the moon, he felt a little pain in his ribcage, but noticed something new--a HEN resting beside him, and that was good.---"Be fruitful and multiply!" said a voice from the heavens. (cock-a-doodle-do, in rooster). The rooster and the hen doodled with his cock for a bit, and the egg came third. Adam and Eve had eggs for breakfast, and the god of creation said "It's all good!" To this day, the yolk is round and yellow, like the sun, and the rooster crows every morning in memory of the primordial lay (of the egg).

Answer 7

Since Adam and Eve came first, before Eve became pregnant, then it's only logical to assume that the hen and rooster came first, before there was an egg.

Answer 8

When i read this question i was like oh i know the answer!!! So yeh, im in a happy mood.

It would be the hen...because there would be no egg if there were no hen.

Answer 9

A crew made from a geneticist, truth seeker and chicken farmer declare to have stumbled on an answer. It become the egg. positioned purely, the reason being right down to the actual incontrovertible reality that genetic textile does no longer change in the course of an animal's existence. consequently the first chicken that advanced into what we ought to call a chicken, likely in prehistoric cases, must have first existed as an embryo interior an egg. Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics on the college of Nottingham, instructed the united kingdom Press association the pecking order become sparkling. The residing organism contained in the eggshell ought to have had an same DNA because the chicken it ought to grow to be, he stated. "consequently, the first residing component which lets say unequivocally turned right into a member of the species must be this regularly going on egg," he further. "So, i ought to finish that the egg got here first." an same end become reached with the aid of his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's college London, and hen farmer Charles Bourns. Mr Papineau, an expert contained in the philosophy of technological awareness, agreed that the first chicken got here from an egg and that proves there have been chicken eggs previously chickens. He instructed PA human beings were flawed in the adventure that they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" chicken mothers and fathers. "i ought to argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he stated. "If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that ought to particularly be an ostrich egg, no longer a kangaroo egg." Bourns, chairman of commerce body tremendous British chicken, stated he become also firmly contained in the pro-egg camp. He stated: "Eggs were round lengthy previously the first chicken arrived. of route, they received't were chicken eggs as we see them immediately, yet they were eggs." the talk, that ought to come as a alleviation to those with argumentative kinfolk, become prepared with the aid of Disney to promote the launch of the movie "chicken Little" on DVD

Answer 10

hen had egg inside to begin with