It was the Chicken! Now don't give me the bird, it's true hen!
This timeless riddle has recently been unscrambled by a team of eggheads from Sheffield and Warwick Universities. They were trying to find out more about how animals make egg shell.
They consulted their top UK Science Research Council chef; HECToR, the (High End Computing Terascale Resource) super-computer.
Providing the ingredients that chickens use to make egg shells they eggsclaimed "Right, this is what chickens use - off you go and see what you can do."
After many weeks of incubation, HECToR laid out its results. Apparently, a particular protein in chickens acts as a tireless builder, placing one microscopic section of shell on top of the other.
Without this builder protein, the eggs would not exist. And yet it is only found in a chicken's ovaries. This means the bird must have come first.
This timeless riddle has recently been unscrambled by a team of eggheads from Sheffield and Warwick Universities. They were trying to find out more about how animals make egg shell.
They consulted their top UK Science Research Council chef; HECToR, the (High End Computing Terascale Resource) super-computer.
Providing the ingredients that chickens use to make egg shells they eggsclaimed "Right, this is what chickens use - off you go and see what you can do."
After many weeks of incubation, HECToR laid out its results. Apparently, a particular protein in chickens acts as a tireless builder, placing one microscopic section of shell on top of the other.
Without this builder protein, the eggs would not exist. And yet it is only found in a chicken's ovaries. This means the bird must have come first.
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2 comments:
LOL.... "a team of eggheads" that's funny but I would say that the chicken came first because there must some type of genetic relationship between an egg and whatever the animal it comes from.
By the way this is a 3 star article, hahaha. So funny.
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