How do you answer what came first the chicken or the egg?

Eggs certainly came before chickens, but chicken eggs did not—you can’t have one without the other. However, if we absolutely had to pick a side, based on the evolutionary evidence, we’re on Team Egg.

Which came first the chicken or the egg PPT?

A chicken is a bird, so, technically, the chicken came first. The first chickens would then have laid an egg, which laid an egg, and so on.

What came first the chicken or the egg poem?

If it is the chicken asking, the egg came first. If it is the egg asking, the chicken came first.

Where did the chicken originally come from?

The chicken is one of the most ubiquitous domesticated animals; it is bred for both its egg and meat, and is thought to have originally been domesticated from the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) native to multiple regions from Southeast Asia to Southwest China3,4,5.

What is the history of the chicken?

Genomic studies estimate that the chicken was domesticated 8,000 years ago in Southeast Asia and spread to China and India 2000–3000 years later. Archaeological evidence supports domestic chickens in Southeast Asia well before 6000 BC, China by 6000 BC and India by 2000 BC.

Who created the chicken?

The chicken is a descendant of the Southeast Asian red jungle fowl first domesticated in India around 2000 B.C. Most of the birds raised for meat in America today are from the Cornish (a British breed) and the White Rock (a breed developed in New England).

Which came first the egg or the chicken egg?

So in a nutshell (or an eggshell, if you like), two birds that weren’t really chickens created a chicken egg, and hence, we have an answer: The egg came first, and then it hatched a chicken. Maybe the question we should be asking is: Which came first, the proto-chicken or the proto-chicken egg?

How was the first chicken made?

The first chickens The very first chicken in existence would have been the result of a genetic mutation (or mutations) taking place in a zygote produced by two almost-chickens (or proto-chickens). This means two proto-chickens mated, combining their DNA together to form the very first cell of the very first chicken.

Was there ever a proto-chicken?

Luckily for people kept awake at night by such quandaries, NPR’s Robert Krulwich recently got to the bottom of the dilemma when he, thankfully, stumbled across the video below. Basically, many, many moons ago there was a chicken-like bird. It was genetically close to a chicken but wasn’t a full-blown chicken yet. The video calls it a proto-chicken.

How did the chicken become a new species?

But when the genes from ma and pa almost-chicken fused, they combined in a new way, creating a mutation that accidentally made the baby different from its parents. Although it would take millennia for the difference to be noticed, that egg was different enough to become the official progenitor of a new species, now known as… the chicken!