Chicken or Egg?

Question

Does chicken cam efrom egg or vice-versa

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Fredric Cohen (1959 AD- ) pointed out that, had the egg come first, there would have been no chicken (hen) to lay it, sit on it and keep it warm, so a live chick would never have hatched from it. So the egg needs a chicken. The question now is where did that first chicken come from? If only an egg that is laid by a chicken and that will hatch into a chicken can be considered a chicken egg: Then the first chicken came from a different type of egg (not a chicken egg) and laid the first chicken egg. In this case eggs (in general) came first, the chicken came after, and the chicken egg came last.

Answer 3

You could find the answer here on yahoo, People ask this question so many times :)

But the answer is Chicken comes first, God created the chicken and they lay eggs.
For a chicken to hatch from a egg you need a chicken to sit on it.

Answer 4

if you believe in evolution, which i do to some extent, a bird evolved into a chicken, and then that chicken laid an egg. now, as for "was the first bird an egg or a bird" i really don't know. i guess a creature evolved into a bird.

Answer 5

This is something that would gradually evolve. Technically the first taxonomic "chicken" was hatched from the egg of a non-but very close-chicken.

Answer 6

The egg came first because birds came from reptile like creatures and evolved into birds so the egg of the first birds were laid. Have a great year.

Answer 7

The monkey laid the egg and it evolved into a chicken. Isn't God awesome how he caused that to happen?

Answer 8

I think I've answered this one before.

It's a reptile first, then a bird.

Since reptiles lay eggs, eggs would come before the chicken!

Answer 9

Chicken had to come first... who would have sat on and protected the egg?

Answer 10

dilema... this is an age old argument and no one really knows, but if your an evolutionist then the Chicken came first other wise who would have did the dirty deed to produce the egg?