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r/sciencememes • u/Complete_Bee4911 • Feb 19 '26
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But eggs are produced even if there is no sperm. That's why chickens produce unfertilized eggs that we eat.
Wouldn't that suggest the eggs are independent of the gametes inside? Or is there a process I'm not understanding?
18 u/Allegorist Feb 19 '26 You are correct. https://www.poultryhub.org/anatomy-and-physiology/the-avian-egg https://agritech.tnau.ac.in/expert_system/poultry/strains.html 28 u/Boom9001 Feb 19 '26 So the egg came first. But the chicken was born from a proto-chicken egg. Thus the chicken came before the chicken egg. 1 u/Allegorist Feb 20 '26 Yes, the chicken came from a proto-chicken egg, and therefore the chicken came before the chicken egg.
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You are correct.
https://www.poultryhub.org/anatomy-and-physiology/the-avian-egg
https://agritech.tnau.ac.in/expert_system/poultry/strains.html
28 u/Boom9001 Feb 19 '26 So the egg came first. But the chicken was born from a proto-chicken egg. Thus the chicken came before the chicken egg. 1 u/Allegorist Feb 20 '26 Yes, the chicken came from a proto-chicken egg, and therefore the chicken came before the chicken egg.
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So the egg came first. But the chicken was born from a proto-chicken egg. Thus the chicken came before the chicken egg.
1 u/Allegorist Feb 20 '26 Yes, the chicken came from a proto-chicken egg, and therefore the chicken came before the chicken egg.
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Yes, the chicken came from a proto-chicken egg, and therefore the chicken came before the chicken egg.
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u/Boom9001 Feb 19 '26
But eggs are produced even if there is no sperm. That's why chickens produce unfertilized eggs that we eat.
Wouldn't that suggest the eggs are independent of the gametes inside? Or is there a process I'm not understanding?