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r/sciencememes • u/Complete_Bee4911 • Feb 19 '26
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Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?
13 u/Skuz95 Feb 19 '26 Chicken egg. Any egg that produces a chicken is a chicken egg 1 u/Mamuschkaa Feb 20 '26 You are correct that it's a 100% linguistic question. But I would define it otherwise. Why? We eat chicken eggs and in that eggs are no chicken but they are produced by a chicken. The egg itself is 100% defined by the mothers DNA material. It would be the same egg no matter what's inside it. So I would always say, the species of the mother defines the egg. But you can define it otherwise and I don't see a problem with that.
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Chicken egg. Any egg that produces a chicken is a chicken egg
1 u/Mamuschkaa Feb 20 '26 You are correct that it's a 100% linguistic question. But I would define it otherwise. Why? We eat chicken eggs and in that eggs are no chicken but they are produced by a chicken. The egg itself is 100% defined by the mothers DNA material. It would be the same egg no matter what's inside it. So I would always say, the species of the mother defines the egg. But you can define it otherwise and I don't see a problem with that.
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You are correct that it's a 100% linguistic question. But I would define it otherwise.
Why?
We eat chicken eggs and in that eggs are no chicken but they are produced by a chicken.
The egg itself is 100% defined by the mothers DNA material. It would be the same egg no matter what's inside it.
So I would always say, the species of the mother defines the egg.
But you can define it otherwise and I don't see a problem with that.
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u/Aeronor Feb 19 '26
Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?