Chicken or The Egg

Which came first - the chicken, or the egg? According to Dictionary.com, it’s a phrase we use in a situation in which it is “impossible” to say which of two things existed first and which caused the other. It is possibly the most controversial question in the world. However, recent science has confirmed that the egg did come before the chicken.

In nature, things evolve as changes (called mutations) are made to their DNA, which (usually) doesn't happen during a life, but when offspring is being produced. Before the first chicken zygote (its first cell, from which the full chicken grows) was created, there were no chickens, only non-chicken birds. Basically, two birds that were not considered chickens yet mated, which created a new zygote cell that contained the mutations needed to become what would then become the first chicken. The zygote cell is the only place where the mutated DNA could come together and form an organism, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken’s egg. In case it’s still unclear, in simpler words, two birds that weren’t biologically chickens created an egg that hatched a chicken. Therefore, the egg came first.

When asked, 50% of students at Treasure Mountain Junior High said that the egg came first and the other half said that the chicken came first. So half of the students were right and the other half should probably read this article. The mystery to this question has been solved.