2007-02-22 00:21:05 · 17 answers · asked by Betty 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Except on the breakfast table, it is always chicken which precedes, whether in the dictionary or if one believes in the evolution theory or in God.
2007-02-22 00:31:15 · answer #1 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It does sound puzzling at first, but how much does one have to think until one realizes that both chicken and egg must necessarily have come from something that is neither a chicken nor an egg? This answer was knowable centuries before biology came about, yet people assumed there was some unsolvable mystery behind the issue.
The modern chicken is generally believed to be a descendant of "Archaeopteryx", the oldest known bird. This 150 million year old resident of the Jurassic period laid eggs, and at some point of time, evolved into an animal that was one generation away from being a proper chicken.
"The egg came first.
DNA mutations occur in the early stages of life of organisms. As you know, when new cells divide, the DNA within the nucleus separates nucleotides and duplicates, then two new helix are formed. The amino acids responsible for mitosis are prone to make mistakes to the genetic architecture-- a beautiful system of flaws that cause evolution and diversity in species. It's like the reason why children will look like their parents, but not approximately, they are a combination of both parent's ancestor genetic history and the result of new combinations in the DNA helix.
So according to fossil research, before the chicken was the "proto-chicken" and this bird was almost chicken, but not quite. Well this proto-chicken laid an egg with a mutation, and the interior change of the DNA was enough that the exterior of the new bird could be thought of as a new species.
The first chicken had to hatch from a chicken egg to qualify to be a chicken, so the egg came first."
2007-02-22 04:21:37 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if this hypotheticak question could be answered- I would guess the egg.
I creature is born in a certain way. and it doesn't normally change during it#s life span. so if a bird has hatched as a turkey. it is a turkey.
but due to the atmophere this turkey as been in- it's eggs might be diffrent then its own egg. so the egg would have the new species...
I once had a better argumet, but I can't find where I wrote it, and am too lazy to think about it too deeply again...,
2007-02-22 00:42:22 · answer #3 · answered by Mogli 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg. What was inside it was genetically different from its parent enough to qualify as a new species, which we call "chicken".
One of your other answerers appears to think that a belief in God equals a 5 year old mentality. A supreme being is quite capable of setting events in motion so that random mutation achieves the desired effect and "survival of the fittest" picks the winners.
Cheers, Steve.
2007-02-22 00:42:15 · answer #4 · answered by Steve J 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not this question again?
Chickens evolved from other egg lying birds so therefore the egg came first.
2007-02-22 04:14:52 · answer #5 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken is simply the egg's way of producing another egg.
2007-02-22 03:10:04 · answer #6 · answered by Duffer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the egg, the first chicken must have been a chicken egg before it was a chicken able to lay chicken eggs.
2007-02-22 00:26:39 · answer #7 · answered by richard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As some unicellular organisms develop into multicellular animals so I think egg come first lol!
2007-02-22 01:55:17 · answer #8 · answered by Angel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god made animals to breed and make little ones then came the egg .
2007-02-22 02:37:59 · answer #9 · answered by henryredwons 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
egg
2007-02-22 00:23:46 · answer #10 · answered by 2tees 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋