If the question is "which came first, the chicken or
the egg", the answer is "the egg" because the
chicken evolved from an earlier life form that also
laid eggs. That is, the egg was laid by something
that you might not identify as a chicken.
Genetically, the thing in the egg may or may
not have started out as being genetically a chicken -
it depends on when the mutation took place.
However, by the time it hatches, clearly by the
premise of the problem, it is a chicken.
Chicks are birds. Birds evolved from dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs also laid eggs. Indeed, egg laying
goes back to the ocean, pre-fish.
Chickens are a relatively late invention,
evolutionarily speaking.
2007-02-20 02:43:04
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answered by Elana 7
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Either way the egg came first, but I am going to assume you mean chicken egg.
The genetic material for a chicken is the same genetic material that was in the egg that it grew up from. When the whateveritwas evolved into the chicken, the evolution was already present in the egg which grew into that chicken.
Therefore the chicken egg must have come first.
If you are talking about eggs in general, then there were other egg-layers long before the chicken came along.
2007-02-20 02:45:23
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answered by Dharma Nature 7
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this question seems often in the question report, so enable's take a shot at it. In nature, residing issues evolve via differences of their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cellular and a woman ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the 1st cellular of a sparkling infant chicken. this ordinary cellular divides innumerable cases to form each and every of the cells of the finished animal. In any animal, each and every cellular includes precisely a similar DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote. Chickens stepped forward from non-chickens via small differences brought about via the blending of woman and male DNA or via mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. those differences and mutations purely have an effect on the factor the place a sparkling zygote is created. it incredibly is, 2 non-chickens mated and the DNA of their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the 1st actual chicken. That one zygote cellular divided to offer the 1st actual chicken. previous to that first actual chicken zygote, there have been purely non-chickens. The zygote cellular is the only place the place DNA mutations ought to offer a sparkling animal, and the zygote cellular is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg might desire to have come first.
2016-10-02 10:52:38
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answered by ? 4
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I believe God started the whole plan, and evolution just took place after that. So, with that theory the egg would've been laid by some sort of bird related to present day chicken, but inside the egg was a bird on the way to what we know now as a chicken. When he/she grew up and mated, their baby was a 1/2 breed. And so on down the line until we ended up with our 2007 chicken. (that made my head hurt)
2007-02-20 02:46:50
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answered by julz6769123 2
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Only the egg of a chicken would give birth to a chick. The chicken who laid the egg would have had to have evolved from a similar species of foul over a long period of time.
2007-02-20 02:42:38
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answered by The Iceman 3
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First it was the egg owing to the fact that it is the result of the evolution of one animal not-yet-chicken through small alterations due to the combination of DNA male and female or to the DNA mutation that has produced the first chicken cell (one zygote). These alterations and mutations started only when the new cell was formed, then a pair of not-yet-cickens and DNA in the new cell zygote included the mutations that originated the birth of the first authentic chicken. Before the first real chicken there were only some not-yet-chicken. The Zygote cell is the only place where DNA's mutations could produce a new animal and the zygote cell formed in the egg of a not-chicken then the egg was born before the chicken.
2007-02-20 03:09:24
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answered by Anonymous
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Chick because eggs come from chickens
2007-02-20 02:43:24
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answered by Anonymous
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Chicken
2007-02-20 02:41:48
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answered by Anonymous
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Chicken came first, cause there would be no one there to sit on the egg. The chicken manifested somehow, by God or Science, but how the chicken got there isn't part of the question, is it?
2007-02-20 02:43:56
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answered by graduate_boy 2
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I'll bet a rooster is responsible for all this controversy for messing around with a yellow bird! Since I'm not a believer of evolution my serious answer is the chicken for obvious reasons.
2007-02-24 18:13:01
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answered by Anonymous
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