2007-06-12 18:18:32 · 19 answers · asked by Fuze M 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
This question appears regularly in the question file, so let me 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.
2007-06-12 18:27:43 · answer #1 · answered by Miss Chief 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chicken
2007-06-14 00:21:54 · answer #2 · answered by ~Flana (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ Pudding~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd have to say the chicken because how can an egg appear before any living organism. A chicken could have easily evolved over time from a different species that we are unfamiliar with. And thus, once the it evolves into a chicken, then can there be an egg.
2007-06-12 18:28:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chicken
2007-06-13 02:00:51 · answer #4 · answered by Rachael 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely the egg. Living things have been making eggs or seeds ever since the dawn of multicellular life. The chicken's egg differs from that of the sea slug in being fertilized internally, laid on dry land, and having a hard shell. The basic concept, of a capsule in which an embryo can develop and be nourished, must have been an outrageous success, as now very few complex organisms reproduce any other way.
2007-06-12 18:32:45 · answer #5 · answered by MariPere' 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Cadbury Cream Egg.
2007-06-12 18:26:03 · answer #6 · answered by Phyz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watch your computer screen.... Your eyes are getting heavy.... You are falling asleep... You will do as I say.... DON'T FLIP PIN WORRY ABOUT IT.... that question has been around longer than the chicken or the egg....AND NOBODY REALLY CARES.
2007-06-12 19:23:46 · answer #7 · answered by Michael N 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the egg was first they ate it for breakfast then the chicken they ate for dinner this is an old stupid question that really serves no purpose.
2007-06-12 18:28:28 · answer #8 · answered by bstuck2000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
EASY!!!!!!
well someone saw the chicken smoking a cigarette in the yard.......so obviously the chicken came first. poor egg it never climaxed.....
if u dont get it.......came= past tense of ***
2007-06-13 08:26:56 · answer #9 · answered by tommy_g_31 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that one was already answered here somewhere.....
Personally, I think it was the egg. Yes, definitely the egg. That is why we have omelette's for breakfast and chicken for dinner.
2007-06-12 18:24:26 · answer #10 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋