2006-09-05 08:38:45 · 35 answers · asked by MARY H 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
I hate these questions. You could be answering this for millions of years, i could say egg, and you could say chicken. But i would have to stick with EGG
2006-09-05 09:26:19 · answer #1 · answered by tommyahammond 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will never find a real answer to that question. But just for the record...
I believe an egg came first (not necessarily a chicken egg)
oops sorry chicen egg
LOL
2006-09-05 10:40:44 · answer #2 · answered by normis_15 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eggs. Basically an egg is a series of cells that slowly transforms upon fertilisation. And seeing as Science suggests that our universe was made from the transformation of one cell combining with another this would suggest that indeed the egg came first.
Btw what the heck is a chicen anyway :p
2006-09-05 08:47:39 · answer #3 · answered by Jason C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have soo gotta see what a chicen is?!
but if u mean chicken or egg it was the chicken it appeared in a space ship one day and the shock of landing on the earth made it lay an egg
2006-09-05 08:54:44 · answer #4 · answered by kj 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If, by "egg", you mean "chicken egg" (eggs in general having been covered above), then the egg still came first.
It's all a question of how you define a species. The generally accepted method of determining if two individuals of opposite sex are of the same species is - would they breed productively (i.e. have fertile children) in the wild?
Taking current chickens as a reference point, and moving back in time, we would see a series of individuals diverging from modern chicken, but theoretically still able to interbreed. At some point, this ability to interbreed stops - but going forward, the next generation has it.
This generation must have began as an egg - so the chicken egg came before the chicken. Case closed.
2006-09-05 08:49:56 · answer #5 · answered by kirun 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg ! Here is the scientific reasoning. Animal species are the results of genetic mutations over time. Therefore the first specimen of chicken resulted from a genetic mutation in the egg that produced it. It had a parent that was genetically close to it but was not quite a chicken yet. This likely happened through a series of these genetic mutations over hundreds of years and not overnight. But in any case the first chicken hatched from an egg !!!
2006-09-05 08:47:17 · answer #6 · answered by dashforstars 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whats a chicen?
2006-09-06 04:29:04 · answer #7 · answered by TT 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Egg
2006-09-05 09:33:52 · answer #8 · answered by InnerGuard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read an article in the Daily Mail last week and scientists stated that the egg came first!
2006-09-05 08:49:31 · answer #9 · answered by jalopy6080 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never heard of a Chicen, is that a new fangled animal?
2006-09-05 08:42:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋