have they found out yet which came first the chicken or the egg??

Question

i am always asked "which came first the chicken or the egg"but i never know have like scientists found out yet???

Answer 1

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

I'll use common sense here and say the egg. Evolution occurs due to genetic mutations in the offspring of organisms. Thus, an animal that was not a chicken (though very similar) laid an egg whose dna was mutated from its own making it a chicken egg. Then that egg hatched, and laid more chicken eggs. Just a thought, no scientific evidence behind it really.

Answer 3

i think it's the chicken. i was in my theology class last week and someone asked the same question. one said, when God created the world, He said let there be birds... Not eggs. So I really think its the chicken.

But when its scientific, its the egg.

I was able to watch this BBC presentation of Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs and it showed how soft-membraned eggs evolved to having a hard-shelled one.

Answer 4

if we assume as one said in evolution the egg would come first as it evolved from another animal I had to wonder what if that animalwhich it evolved from was not egg bearing and the evolutionary turn was to an egg bearing bird I know it sounds crazy but then the evolutionary first would be the bird and god could have started eggs and chickens at the same time I suppose.

Answer 5

It has to be the chicken.
Without the chicken, whats there to keep the egg warm??
If the egg is cold, its certainly not going to survive.
Whats going to teach it to act like a chicken?

Answer 6

the chicken came first cuz itz faster than an egg so therefore the chicken makes it first then the egg comes second

get it?....ahh nvr mnd
lol

Answer 7

if we assume evolution happened then the egg came first produced by a slightly different animal than the chicken

if we assume God made everything then the chicken came first.

Answer 8

The chicken -- if the egg came first who would sit on it?

Answer 9

Well, let's see... according to evolution a fish laid an egg & a snake came out, then the snake laid an egg & a chicken came out. I guess the answer is Chicken!

Answer 10

The best theory I've seen is that slowly, an animal evolved into a chicken (DINOSAURS FTW), until the first egg of what we call a chicken today came.
So I think we can safely say "egg"