2006-10-27 21:17:08 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
the chicken
2006-10-27 21:18:21 · answer #1 · answered by Caoimhsearch 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
lol
This question appears regularly in the question file, so let's take a shot at it.
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.
2006-10-27 21:24:03 · answer #2 · answered by Danny 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The chicken would have to lay the egg and then teach the young chick how to be a chicken if it was just an egg their would be nothing to keep it warm and it would probably die if it did hatch cuz it's just a baby chick and even if the chick mad it to be an adult how would it reproduce it's the only one chicken around it needs a rooster
2006-10-27 21:21:21 · answer #3 · answered by Ben V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both. The chicken with the egg attached.
2006-10-27 23:35:40 · answer #4 · answered by St Harpy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg came first. Fish in the sea were laying eggs many many years before chicken ever even existed.
That should end the debate!!
2006-10-27 21:18:47 · answer #5 · answered by Wiseguy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Eggs, because dinosaur eggs appear long before the chicken.....
2006-10-27 22:34:37 · answer #6 · answered by Maxwell O 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOD came first then the egg then the chicken
2006-10-27 21:19:44 · answer #7 · answered by CRUNKMAN 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The tense of ur question needs some explanation. What CAME 1st remains a mystery. But what comes 1st may depend on the context.
Well one thing is for sure, in all english dictionaries, chicken comes 1st.
2006-10-27 21:46:00 · answer #8 · answered by KK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the egg was around way before the chicken lizards layd eggs and soo did dinos was there any chickens back in the day
2006-10-27 21:19:47 · answer #9 · answered by lv23smurf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE CHICKEN some one had to lay that egg and it wasn't me!
2006-10-27 22:00:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋