1. Who is your favourite actor/actress?
I really like Sam Jackson. Tom hanks is another good one.
2. What was the best present you got on your last Birthday?
That was just last month, but I don't remember.
3. What's your party trick? (i.e any weird talents)
I don't really have one.
4. Who's your favourite Simpsons character?
Chief Wiggam
5. Where would your ideal place to live be?
In the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
6. What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Who knows
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This question appears regularly in the question file, so let's take a shot at it.
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.
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The problem with this theory is that the first chicken would have come from a non-chicken egg. Therefore, you would have to ask the question "what came first, the chicken or the chicken egg". The chicken came before the chicken egg, but the "egg" came before the chicken.