Just want to know!!!!
2006-08-30 01:42:05 · 20 answers · asked by jodie s 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
The definitive (with reference) answer is the EGG.
The short version is that the zygote cell is the only place where mutations can occur, therefore the first chicken came from an egg produced by something other than a chicken...
Long version...excuse the "cut and paste" :
n 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.
2006-08-30 01:54:18 · answer #1 · answered by spindoccc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
Reframing the question
It could be said that the question simply requires one to know the context. Most people thinking of the question automatically think of the timeline and it is in this manner that both the previous evolutionary theory and religious teachings contexts arise. Other potential contexts are:
* Having looked through a dictionary from front to back, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?
* When you walked through the supermarket, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?
* When reading the menu, which came first? - the chicken or the egg?
2006-08-31 03:13:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1)the egg because without an egg from where do the chicken came( logical)
2)the chicken because god created the world with all that is on it(religion)
2006-08-30 01:54:45 · answer #3 · answered by torrrer15 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken! You can't have an egg without the chicken first.
2006-08-30 01:47:08 · answer #4 · answered by Fool in the Rain 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The chicken.
2006-08-30 01:48:53 · answer #5 · answered by Kathy C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chicken came first
the production of organism and then the reproduction of the species
cant have offsprings if you have an egg
2006-08-30 01:48:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The egg.
2006-08-30 02:39:28 · answer #7 · answered by kelitahmadi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe that God created everything then it's only logical to know that The Chicken came first.
2006-08-30 01:45:46 · answer #8 · answered by Daydream Believer 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
the chicken, cuz it can walk while the egg doesn't roll straight... :p
2006-08-30 02:18:58 · answer #9 · answered by Kelzow20 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chicken
2006-08-30 02:12:35 · answer #10 · answered by piper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋