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by -Linz- on March 19th, 2007

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What came first the chicken or the egg?
What came first the tree or the seed?
What came first the discovering or inventing?

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  • by Leo26 on June 4th, 2008

    Leo26

    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...

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  • by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on June 4th, 2008

    Sixty B - Commander Topcoat

    Maybe there was a force that came first that spontaneously invented the first chicken egg seed? Now there's a thought!

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  • by The Urban Spaceman on March 19th, 2007

    The Urban Spaceman

    A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face and the egg is frowning and looking put out.

    The egg mutters to no one in particular,
    "I guess we answered that question."

    found it on www.dailyhaha.com it is such a funny site!!!!! i have no answer for the others but i wud guess seed and discovering....

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  • by johngo on May 16th, 2009

    johngo

    After fertilization an egg is a single cell. Single-celled organisms were present long before multicellular ones, so the egg came first, of course the single celled organisms had to get in a good deal of evolving before chickens appeared. I think that the best way to look at this is to think of the chicken as an egg's way, a rather complicated one at that, of producing more eggs.

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  • by The answer master on May 16th, 2009

    The answer master

    The evolution of cellular life on earth started with a prokaryotes which evolved eubacteria and archaebacteria creating o2 in the earth by photosynthesis under the sea so ultra violet rays dont wipe away the inorganic substances.

    Through Early eukaryotes came diverse protists, hence multicellularity. creating many multicellular organisms we see today (like seeweed) whom survived.

    periods of time where animals started to appear with no siblings in the cambarian period..many mass extinction occured.
    Fish evolved into reptiles and amphibians....

    Mammals and dinasarus appeared..mammals evolved...we evolved from monkeys???

    well you believe what you want to believe.. its all about evolution..and we have Fossils to prove it..

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  • by Alfredo on March 19th, 2007

    Alfredo

    Chicken-i just like chickens too much
    Tree-No one would be their to plant the seed if they had no trees for oxygen to breath
    Discover-cuz you have to discover inventing first

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  • by Freaky Yo on June 4th, 2008

    Freaky Yo

    The thing that came first in all of those is Luck. Luck for any of it to happen.

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  • by WonderEyes on April 6th, 2010

    WonderEyes

    answer to queston #1. the chicken because how else would it lay the egg? i think for the #2 question the seed. and for the 3rd one i would have another answer for that imagining even though i know that that wasnt on your question it true to discover things is to imagine and to invent you need to imagine too !

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