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Which come first, the chicken or the egg ?
It’s a question that has perplexed humanity from as early as the accient greek all the way to the twenty first century, and we are still dying to know which come first.
Egg laying animals existed far before chickens came about, technically the egg came before the chicken. This question is better worded as the chicken or the chicken egg ? focusses more on the cyclical cause and consequence. If a chicken born from an egg, where did the egg cam from ? Another chicken presummably, whichtoo must come from an egg.
TEAM CHICKEN
Research suggest that the protein essential for the formation of the chicken eggs, called OV-17 is only found in chicken ovaries. Without it, the chicken eggshell could not be formed.
Without a chicken, technically we cannot get a chicken egg.
But this all depends on the nature and defination of a chicken egg in the first place. After all, is a chicken egg is an egg laid by a chicken ? Or one that simply contains a chicken ?
Obviously the OV-17 bearing chicken had to come from somewhere. But if a tiger laid an egg from which an elephant hatched, would it be a tiger egg or an elephant egg ?
TEAM EGG
During reproduction two organisms pass along their gentic information in the form of DNA, but the replication of this DNA is never 100% accurate and often produces minor changes for the new organism.
This small mutation in DNA over thousands of generations create new species. But these genetic mutation must occur in the zygote or initial call
So, a creature very similar to a chicken (which we could call a proto-chicken) would have mated with another proto-chicken and because of a small genetic mutation created the first chicken which grew in an egg.
“Team Chicken” might argue that this was a chicken growing inside of a proto-chicken egg. However no-one mutation can ever really consitute a new species. Even thought we humans like to classify all creatures into different groups and names. This
It’s a question that has perplexed humanity from as early as the accient greek all the way to the twenty first century, and we are still dying to know which come first.
Egg laying animals existed far before chickens came about, technically the egg came before the chicken. This question is better worded as the chicken or the chicken egg ? focusses more on the cyclical cause and consequence. If a chicken born from an egg, where did the egg cam from ? Another chicken presummably, whichtoo must come from an egg.
TEAM CHICKEN
Research suggest that the protein essential for the formation of the chicken eggs, called OV-17 is only found in chicken ovaries. Without it, the chicken eggshell could not be formed.
Without a chicken, technically we cannot get a chicken egg.
But this all depends on the nature and defination of a chicken egg in the first place. After all, is a chicken egg is an egg laid by a chicken ? Or one that simply contains a chicken ?
Obviously the OV-17 bearing chicken had to come from somewhere. But if a tiger laid an egg from which an elephant hatched, would it be a tiger egg or an elephant egg ?
TEAM EGG
During reproduction two organisms pass along their gentic information in the form of DNA, but the replication of this DNA is never 100% accurate and often produces minor changes for the new organism.
This small mutation in DNA over thousands of generations create new species. But these genetic mutation must occur in the zygote or initial call
So, a creature very similar to a chicken (which we could call a proto-chicken) would have mated with another proto-chicken and because of a small genetic mutation created the first chicken which grew in an egg.
“Team Chicken” might argue that this was a chicken growing inside of a proto-chicken egg. However no-one mutation can ever really consitute a new species. Even thought we humans like to classify all creatures into different groups and names. This