Why are most eggs egg-shaped ?
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The most efficient shape for an egg would be a sphere. This would need the least amount of shell to enclose a given volume, and as shell is an "expensive" thing for birds to make (in terms of energy/ food resources/ minerals). That's a good thing in evolutionary terms.\n\nThe "egg" shape is a modification of the sphere that can stop the egg from rolling away and breaking! This is most obvious in birds that nest on sea cliffs (such as gannets). Push a gannet's egg and it rolls around in a circle. That may be a reason the asymmetric shape evolved originally. This effect is less pronounced in birds that have evolved to make cup-shaped nests, as it's no longer necessary, so in some cases their eggs have lost this ability to roll in a circle even though they're still oval.
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think of it like an egg...\nan egg has a shell, a yoke and the white...\nbut all together it is an egg\n\nJust like God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are all God\nThey may be different entinties, but together they make up the one true God!
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to HIDE EGGS [DONT YOU THINK?]
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It has the potential to be a chicken when it is fertilised (which most eggs aren't). It becomes a chicken when it hatches.
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Sure, except I believe that "upside down" would be two words.  To keep eggs fresh without refrigeration you need to turn them every few days, so sometimes they'd be "right side up"  and sometimes they'd be "upside down".   Just a bit of trivia ...
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You mean chicken eggs that we eat? It's not necessary. Generally the eggs we eat aren't fertilized.
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it's not called as vegetarian, but some vegetarians, do eat eggs, because they take this eating animals thing a bit less seriously. (some even eat fish, so this thing is really confusing to me anywayz)
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....and goes ROAST??\n\nor the answer to egg-chicken ques....\n\nThe modern chicken is generally believed to be a descendant of "Archaeopteryx", the oldest known bird. This 150 million ear old resident of the jurassic period laid eggs, and at some point of time, evolved into an animal that was one generation away from being a proper chicken. This creature would have produced the egg out of qwhich the first chicken emerged...the EGG came first.
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The white of an egg is white because it is the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water, and albumin is white.
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if u r considering egg as spherical instead of oval. and surface tension is taken as T then pressure difeerence outside and inside of egg is 4T/R where  R is radius of egg.So maximum pressure it can sustain is 4T/R.\nhey,i did it.
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Smaller than a big egg, but bigger than a tiny one.
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Yes, quanity and quality decline with age as does the eggs quality.  There is a higher percentages of defects in babys when "old" folks make them.   Good lucl.  Pops
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The types of eggs based on yolk characteristics are described as:\nIsolecithal: sparse evenly distributed yolk, eg., sea urchin, mouse\nMesolecthal: moderate amount of yolk, often unevenly distributed, eg., frog\nTelolecithal: dense yolk concentrated at one end, eg., bird, reptile\nCentrolecithal: yolk concentrated at the middle of the egg, eg. fly
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Idiotic Idea: Spin the eggs. The eggs that spin for a long time, they are the boiled eggs.
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egg... there are fish eggs before chicken eggs
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In order for an egg to hatch it must be fertilized.  Therefore, it takes two creatures to make a fertile egg.  For the chicken to predate the egg, there would have to be two chickens before the egg; a hen and a rooster.  Eggs are also often laid in batches.  Therefore it seems more likely that two creatures (not quite chickens) conspired to fertilize and lay a batch of eggs that became (male and female) chickens and when hatched they could have even more chickens.  This proves that the eggs were first.  A chicken is distinct from all other creatures because of its unique DNA and number of genes as received from two parents.  Only in the egg could the first correct set of DNA occur.  But I don't want to end an interesting argument.
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Not spoiled, but fresh:\n\n\nBlood Spots\nAlso called meat spots. Occasionally found on an egg yolk. Contrary to popular opinion, these tiny spots do not indicate a fertilized egg. Rather, they are caused by the rupture of a blood vessel on the yolk surface during formation of the egg or by a similar accident in the wall of the oviduct. Less than 1% of all eggs produced have blood spots. \n\nMass candling methods reveal most eggs with blood spots and those eggs are removed but, even with electronic spotters, it is impossible to catch all of them. As an egg ages, the yolk takes up water from the albumen to dilute the blood spot so, in actuality, a blood spot indicates that the egg is fresh. Both chemically and nutritionally, these eggs are fit to eat. The spot can be removed with the tip of a knife, if you wish.\n\nhttp://www.aeb.org/LearnMore/EggFacts.htm