Does anyone actually know this one?
2006-09-01 23:43:39 · 28 answers · asked by sexy_n_chicago 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
The egg of the bird that chickens decended from.
As all natural development is based on benificial mutations the egg of the bird that mutated into chickens came first, the chicken came as a mutation within the egg and as the mutation was beneficial it got passed on when that first chicken produced its own eggs.
2006-09-01 23:47:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 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?
2006-09-03 00:34:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Chicken 100% chicken, because If a chicken does not sit over her egg, It will always be an egg, it won't form a chicken inside the egg.
2006-09-02 06:56:53 · answer #3 · answered by Prince 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are Christian, then God made the chicken along with all the animals. But if you believe in evolution, then the egg came first because the modern chicken as we know it hatched from the egg.
2006-09-02 06:48:11 · answer #4 · answered by me2000 2 · 0⤊ 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.
2006-09-02 06:44:47 · answer #5 · answered by Seraphim 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Two Chickens then the egg
2006-09-02 06:46:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Here is the ultimate answer
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A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face. The egg is frowning and looking a bit pissed off. The egg mutters to no one in particular, "Well, I guess we answered THAT question!"
2006-09-02 09:47:32 · answer #7 · answered by Pd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! It was actually proven to be the egg over 100 years ago, but people still say it.
2006-09-02 06:46:21 · answer #8 · answered by Summer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is only one place a chicken egg comes from, and that, My Dear, is a hen. LOL.
2006-09-03 09:43:57 · answer #9 · answered by jfmm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well sins ther was eggs befor ther was chickens I would say the egg.
2006-09-02 06:45:41 · answer #10 · answered by Sherry M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋