what would come first the chicken or the egg?
2006-11-27 13:24:44 · 15 answers · asked by mr.man 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
If you believe in the Creation theory of origins of life, it is the chicken. The Creator made all things, including chickens, and placed them on the Earth to perpetuate their own species.
If you are an adherent to the theory of evolution, then the egg came first. Within the egg, there are chromosomal mutations that allow a chicken to emerge from the egg laid by a lower & less evolved species.
2006-11-27 13:35:31 · answer #1 · answered by Shenendoah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-11-27 14:03:53 · answer #2 · answered by babygirl 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that's a tricky one. I think both ways. the chicken came first. the egg came first...i don't know.
but the way I see it, first the egg is layed. then the hen incubates it for the chicken to be born. I have a hen and saw all of this until the chicken is now a rooster.
the rooster is sort of my alarm clock. when he sings, I know it's time to wake up. love that rooster. he's sooo cute!
2006-11-27 13:40:49 · answer #3 · answered by alizelatina41 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chicken comes first ,without the chicken there would be no egg.
2006-11-27 13:41:33 · answer #4 · answered by computer wiz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
egg because the chicken first has to be born.
2006-11-27 13:32:36 · answer #5 · answered by A real blond singer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolutionists would say the egg. Creationists would say the chicken.
2006-11-27 13:27:00 · answer #6 · answered by nosleepthree 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
egg
chicken i don't like chicken
what do u mean what comes first?u mean the food would i first eat..
2006-11-27 13:59:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that god created animals,so theoretically the chicken came first.
2006-11-27 13:30:50 · answer #8 · answered by monique 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you speaking of the birth of a chicken if so i would say the chicken
2006-11-27 13:30:10 · answer #9 · answered by annjilena 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chicken and noah had the damned things on the ark two of them
2006-11-27 13:29:33 · answer #10 · answered by roy40372 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋