What came first the chicken or the egg or microscopic bacteria hat developed and evolved over billions of years to become the bird that we now know today as the chicken?
2007-02-02 04:01:22 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Well...since dinosaurs laid eggs millions of years before chickens (or any bird) evolved...the egg definitely came before chickens.
Your "microscopic bacteria" may have come before either one.
2007-02-02 04:09:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Think about it logically--the egg came first. Chickens evolved from something else--from some "almost-chicken" if you will. The mutations that were the substance of this evolution occur during the embryotic reproduction process, rather than in a fully developed animal.
It isn't possible for an "almost-chicken" egg to become a real chicken. At some point an "almost-chicken" must have laid a real chicken egg, which grew into a chicken. So the egg came first.
2007-02-02 12:10:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Based on what we know from evolution, single-cell organisms came first: the egg. But to be more specific, previous to the chicken was another bird one could almost call a chicken but not quite (don't ask me what it is, i haven't the foggiest idea). At one point that bird laid the egg that would then become what we know to be the chicken. I'm sure it's a lot more complicated than just that, but that's the basics of it.
2007-02-02 12:15:30 · answer #3 · answered by angel c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life probably started as ameba in the oceans and then progressed into more and more cmplicated forms as time passed. From whatever was the predecessor, the chicken appeared over a few thousands of generations, with small mutations. Each time, there was an egg and a bird. It is futile to discuss which came first.
2007-02-02 12:16:23 · answer #4 · answered by Swamy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pre-historic chicken-like bird hatched an egg with a slightly geneticaly mutated more moden chicken-like bird inside.
2007-02-02 13:25:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Millions of years ago there was an animal, it called it's self ken, he worked at local movie theater, he was tall, geeky, and had a lisp. one day a beautiful creature came along to watch a really bad low budget horror move her name was chic she had ADHD & turettes, fortunately for chic, ken had seen this movie several times and saved her from two hours of evil clown music, and techno zombie cowboys. Anyways chic was grateful for this, they fell in love, took a trip to the bay, bought really expensive food then Bam....they became one. a beast known has the chic-ken, a feathery hermaphrodite of braces, lisps, and adhd. it could a-sexually reproduce, spawning eggs of chaos and tiny yellow bird creatures, so the answer is neither chicken nor egg.
2007-02-02 12:18:52 · answer #6 · answered by aphotic nostrum 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Like the old question, "Which came first, the baby or the adult?", God put Adam and Eve as the first people to roam accross the world. Likewise, God put the chicken(s) first. Okay, that may have been going a bit deep :).
2007-02-02 12:12:26 · answer #7 · answered by The Kujinator 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The rooster....with out the rooster contributing his part to the equation...there would be no egg, and hence no chicken.
2007-02-02 22:15:09 · answer #8 · answered by nightowl_2134 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bacteria came first.
2007-02-02 12:08:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God created the animals, so the chicken came first.
2007-02-02 12:09:41 · answer #10 · answered by Uther Aurelianus 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋