Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

this que looks quiet simple .. but is very interesting!
my que is..

did hen com earlier...or egg???



-harshaohri

It was the egg. Definitely. According to science.

Hi,

Are you planning your science fair project? If so, I recommend checking out the project ideas on the science buddies website https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... deas.shtml and looking for a topic that interests you. Then do background reading to see what others have done, so you can ask a question that can be answered by doing a carefully controlled experiment.

The chicken and egg question is more of a philosophical question and a topic for jokes. However, there are lots of egg-related science fair projects that you could consider. Here is a partial list of egg topics from the science buddies website:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... gclmby#849

Let us know if you need more help with a science project.

Donna Hardy

Actually BiologyNerd, it was the single celled microorganism because of the theory of evolution... If you take that a few steps forward then its a dinosaur evolves into a chicken.

Our modern understanding of the evolutionary history of life on earth does indeed provide an unequivocal answer to this ancient riddle. The egg came first.

The chicken, Gallus gallus, belongs to a genus that is probably no more than 8 million years old. The evolutionary ancestors of the chicken were hatching out of eggs for countless generations before that!

Here's a fun image to drive the point home:

Imagine you're standing in a barnyard with a chicken, and next to that chicken is its mother, and next to that chicken is ITS mother, and so on in a long line of daughters and mothers stretching back millions of generations. If you start walking along the line moving "back in time," first the birds that you pass look like modern chickens, then like old-fashioned chickens, then like the ancestral jungle fowl from which chickens were domesticated. Eventually, the birds you're walking past don't look like chickens at all any more. Eventually, they don't even look like birds: you're walking past dinosaurs! If you walk far enough, you enter the ocean, and you're splashing along the shore past primitive tetrapods way back at the dawn of land-dwelling vertebrates. Yet even these ancient ancestors, living long before any birds (much less chickens!) existed, hatched from eggs. No doubt about it: the egg came first.

thank u sir.
i really felt the matter was expressive and subjective.
thank u once more for sharing ur knowledge/\with the students like that of us.[i meant ..questioning and anxious.]


harsha

Here's another interesting question for you who decided that they should eat the egg

no idea sir...
u tell me plz/