Who came first egg or chicken?

Eggs come from chickens and chickens come from eggs: that’s the basis of this ancient riddle. But eggs – which are just female sex cells – evolved more than a billion years ago, whereas chickens have been around for just 10,000 years.

Which came first the chicken or the amniotic egg quizlet?

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? the egg, because the amniotic egg evolved well before the first birds.

What came first the chicken or the egg Aristotle?

Through a complex argument involving the perishability of anything potential and the eternal idea of the actual chicken, Aristotle deduced that actuality always comes before potentiality. So, according to Aristotle, the (actual) chicken came before the (potential) egg.

What came first the chicken or the egg and other questions?

According to Darwin and the modern biologists, the egg came first. The thing is, the species that had been developing into a chicken for thousands of years couldn’t just appear out of nowhere: the start of life happens in the egg. Over time, the ancient bird “transformed” into the chicken we know.

Which is the first animal to lay an egg?

The answers are: 1. The egg (species that lay eggs have been around a lot longer than chickens). 2. The chicken. That is, if a chicken egg must be laid by a chicken, then before a chicken egg can exist, there must *by definition* be a chicken around to lay it.

Who was the first person to describe the chicken and the egg?

Plutarch was the first person to describe the chicken-and-egg problem, writing in his Symposiacs: “Soon after [Alexander] proposed that perplexed question, that plague of the inquisitive, Which was first, the bird or the egg?”

Which is true, an egg or a chicken?

A chicken. And on and on, until we get bored and decide to swing on the monkey bars. This is called infinite regression: the initial link in the causal chain (chickens come from eggs) is supported by the truth of a second link (eggs come from chickens), but that proposition can only be true if the first one is beforehand.

Which is the first cell of a chicken?

Second, you need to know that, in 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 means that two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken.