2007-04-21 11:21:16 · 17 answers · asked by albert b 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Oh, wait! I think I know this one. The chicken ... no, the egg... I mean, definitly maybe...wait, let me think: the toilet paper rolls off better Over the top; it's better to floss After brushing; ah, now I remember, the chicken came first! After all, you didn't say "what came first, the Egg or the chicken", right?
Gee, thanks for seeing me through this one.
2007-04-21 11:57:03 · answer #1 · answered by Pioneer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
"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."
2007-04-21 11:25:59 · answer #2 · answered by ~Happiness.should.last.forever.~ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The egg
2007-04-21 11:39:18 · answer #3 · answered by Don Eppes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the egg.
Not necessarily a chicken's egg, but their were reptile eggs around long before the evolution of chickens.
2007-04-21 11:29:08 · answer #4 · answered by Gennie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the egg because it couldn't possibly be the chicken, since if there is no egg, how is there a chicken?
2007-04-21 11:48:53 · answer #5 · answered by princess_of_the_world159 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
chicken evolved from a common ancestor from a class of organisms that hatched from eggs
2007-04-21 11:25:23 · answer #6 · answered by HS Sweetness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the egg cause dinosaurs laid eggs way before the chicken was discovered
2007-04-22 03:27:46 · answer #7 · answered by lee s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
neither scientist believe that Humans invented eggs and soon chickens came out
2007-04-21 11:26:43 · answer #8 · answered by skilled_cuer 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it would be foolish for me to tell you; this is a very old question without an answer. Butt, (two t's on purpose) are you aware that reproduction began with females and there are still species that reproduce with out the male. You are doomed. Perhaps that's why you keep asking this stupid question.
You are Obsolete. Go Home to your Mother.
2007-04-21 11:29:34 · answer #9 · answered by Caretaker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken, because God created the chicken.
2007-04-21 11:29:12 · answer #10 · answered by ginaforu5448 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋