How did a worm get inside an egg?

robin clark · « **on:** 02/08/2009 11:30:02 »

robin clark asked the Naked Scientists:

We found a worm in a egg and we need to know what to do, also my brother got sick...

What do you think?

RD · « **Reply #1 on:** 02/08/2009 18:06:26 »

Are you sure is wasn't this normal structure ...

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In animal eggs, the chalaza is composed of one or two spiral bands of tissue that suspend the yolk in the center of the white. It does not act like an umbilical cord; the growing embryo receives its nutrients from the yolk. The purpose of the chalaza is to hold the yolk in place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalaza

Don_1 · « **Reply #2 on:** 08/08/2009 01:39:50 »

Perhaps the egg was fertile. The 'worm' was the early stages of development.

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #3 on:** 08/08/2009 01:57:57 »

Can you also tell me which came first? The chicken or the egg?

Don_1 · « **Reply #4 on:** 08/08/2009 02:04:37 »

Niether, the sausages come first, then the bacon, the egg is always last.

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #5 on:** 08/08/2009 02:20:16 »

Oi! Stop ducking my question!

Don_1 · « **Reply #6 on:** 08/08/2009 02:30:52 »

Quote from: Chemistry4me on 08/08/2009 02:20:16

Oi! Stop ducking my question!

You can't even spell it right!

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #7 on:** 08/08/2009 02:37:11 »

Was that a pun?

Don_1 · « **Reply #8 on:** 08/08/2009 02:42:40 »

Allow me to elucidate:

Quote from: Don_1 on 08/08/2009 02:30:52

Quote from: Chemistry4me on 08/08/2009 02:20:16
Oi! Stop ducking my question!

You can't even spell it right!

"F"

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #9 on:** 08/08/2009 07:13:54 »

Eh? I'm still in the dark. Really.

Nizzle · « **Reply #10 on:** 12/08/2009 08:44:40 »

The "worm" could be a chicken parasite.
It's possible it entered the egg in its development stage, before it had a shell.

lyner · « **Reply #11 on:** 12/08/2009 10:04:10 »

That yolk's been cracked already.

Don_1 · « **Reply #12 on:** 12/08/2009 13:01:37 »

Should we re-name the forum?

The Naked Pun Forum.

Karen W. · « **Reply #13 on:** 13/08/2009 12:50:19 »

Quote from: robin clark on 02/08/2009 11:30:02

robin clark asked the Naked Scientists:

We found a worm in a egg and we need to know what to do, also my brother got sick...

What do you think?

So may I ask a dumb question...?

I am only assuming that you found the worm in the egg first before ingestion right.. so then your brother went ahead and knowingly ate the egg with the worm..?

OR....

Did you remove the worm, and did the thought make him sick or the actual after effects from eating the worm infested egg make him sick?

Don_1 · « **Reply #14 on:** 14/08/2009 08:26:07 »

EUREKA!!!! I've got it!

This a new species of chicken which lays 'breakfast eggs'. They come complete with a sausage in them. Next step, a rasher of bacon, then beans, mushrooms

OUCH! Alright, I was only joking.

Mr. Scientist · « **Reply #15 on:** 24/09/2009 01:33:28 »

Quote from: Chemistry4me on 08/08/2009 01:57:57

Can you also tell me which came first? The chicken or the egg?

The chicken had to come first. A paradox arises if you allow the egg to pre-existent to the thing which gives birth too.

_Stefan_ · « **Reply #16 on:** 24/09/2009 02:33:43 »

No, the first chicken had to come from somewhere, so the egg came first.

Mr. Scientist · « **Reply #17 on:** 24/09/2009 16:23:45 »

Quote from: _Stefan_ on 24/09/2009 02:33:43

No, the first chicken had to come from somewhere, so the egg came first.

Evolution did play a part you know. The chicken could not have always laid eggs.

_Stefan_ · « **Reply #18 on:** 24/09/2009 22:06:54 »

Yes, it could always have laid eggs. No female chicken has ever reproduced without laying an egg.

Obviously the chicken evolved from a non-chicken ancestor, but the first chicken (or the populations of birds we might have called the first chickens due to sufficient divergence of traits) grew inside that ancestor's egg, not a chicken egg. Therefore the chicken came before the chicken egg [

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If you want to talk about the first egg in general (egg cells included), well, that came many hundreds of millions of years ago [

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Mr. Scientist · « **Reply #19 on:** 25/09/2009 04:45:28 »

Quote from: _Stefan_ on 24/09/2009 22:06:54

Yes, it could always have laid eggs. No female chicken has ever reproduced without laying an egg.

Obviously the chicken evolved from a non-chicken ancestor, but the first chicken (or the populations of birds we might have called the first chickens due to sufficient divergence of traits) grew inside that ancestor's egg, not a chicken egg. Therefore the chicken came before the chicken egg []

If you want to talk about the first egg in general (egg cells included), well, that came many hundreds of millions of years ago []

How could it have always laid eggs, and thus what laid that egg? Chickens, like all animals come from some common-source ancestor... Ourselves for instance, have been genetically-traced to a shrew-like creature which existed a very long time ago. Physiological and biological makeup has changed so much, we have things this shrew did not.

Much like the chicken, its not always been a chicken; in a massive evolutionary jump, a common-ancestor (unique as its own species) had a genetic change. The change resolves the paradox appropriately, as the chicken had not always laid eggs.

How did a worm get inside an egg?

robin clark

lyner