2006-09-24 03:28:26 · 18 answers · asked by smkrash 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
the egg. Fish and reptiles predate birds.
2006-09-24 03:30:15 · answer #1 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The chicken because something has to lay the egg in the first place.
2006-09-24 10:37:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg came first. Whatever genetic mutations came about to create the first chicken were present when that chicken was still in the form of an egg (it's genetic makeup does not change after it hatches).
Parkman, you may choose to believe whatever you like, but birds do not have "sexual intercourse." They have one opening called a cloaca that excretes waste and also serves as the opening for the sexual organs. When they mate, males and females press their cloacas together and sperm is passed from the male to the female. There is no penetration.
2006-09-24 16:12:08 · answer #3 · answered by a.kam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chicken.
2006-09-24 10:35:35 · answer #4 · answered by songbird 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in evolution, it is the egg. If you are asking specifically about chicken eggs, it goes like this: two similar species of birds bred and created a new species. When the egg hatched, it was a chicken. ta da!
2006-09-24 10:38:04 · answer #5 · answered by ilmp03 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I choose to answer the chicken. I believe that God created male and female chickens and that through sexual intercourse, the male sperm and the female egg came together for the conception of another chicken. And on and on and on...
2006-09-24 11:15:35 · answer #6 · answered by Kidd! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Egg, because as birds evolved and changed forms "subtle changes from generation to generation" the changes don't become evident until the egg hatches and the new form emerges. the chicken that we know today was probably very different 100,000 years ago.
2006-09-24 10:40:54 · answer #7 · answered by jlinder_1 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Shelled eggs developed in reptiles long before birds appeared on the earth. Of course, shell-less eggs developed even earlier, in fish and amphibians.
2006-09-24 14:55:56 · answer #8 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both developped at the same time. When life in water became more sophisticated (forms a few millions of cells) they suddenly stopped dividing themselves and instead only giving their dns to a single cell ... that's how it started with eggs long before there was any life on the landmass of earth.
2006-09-24 10:31:39 · answer #9 · answered by jhstha 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The chicken. God created the Heaven's and Earth and all that is within. So it was the chicken.
2006-09-24 15:44:28 · answer #10 · answered by Norskeyenta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋