What came first the chicken or the egg?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

the long-standing debate over which came first - the chicken or the egg - and opted for the egg.

Professor John Brookfield, a genetics expert from Nottingham University, said the first chicken must have started out as an embryo in an egg.

This means the organism in the eggshell would have the same DNA as the chicken.

He explained that the reason was due to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.

Professor Brookfield said: "The first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg, so I would conclude that the egg came first."

Answer 3

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, and when it hatched, there was the chicken...

Answer 4

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 5

The egg and the chicken are lieing in bed. The chicken rolls over and lights a cigarette. The egg mumbles under its breath "well that answers that riddle"

Hope that answers that once and for all

Answer 6

this one is 2 easy, the chicken had to come first as the egg could not possibly hatch unless there was a chicken on top keeping it at the right temperature at all times!! also i think they wernt always eggs but the chicklets evolved over millions of years as they were to weak without a shell!!
give me best answer fool!!

also what will always win? rock, scissors or paper?

Answer 7

The DNA without it you don't have the chicken or the egg. I meant Chicken Dna of course.

Answer 8

well the egg was laid by an ancestor of the chicken who was in a state of evolution and out of the egg came the chick.

Answer 9

The chicken.

Answer 10

the chicken... no the egg...no the chicken! ah, i don't know!x