Acids Bases and pH Scale. I. Acids *Acids are ionic compounds (a compound with a positive or negative charge) that break apart in water to form a hydrogen ion (H +). *The strength of an acid is based on the concentration of H + ions in the solution. The more H+ the stronger the acid.
This version is interesting because an egg containing a chicken might have been laid by a chicken or a non-chicken, which of course affects the answer. Thanks to modern genetic science, we can now be sure that the egg came first.
The actual size of the initial egg of a chicken is quite small. The apparatus that surrounds this single cell is enormous by comparison. An egg once fertilized is known as a zygote. The initial zygote of a chicken and of a human are essentially the same size. The egg you see from a chicken contains that zygote, which develops into a fully-formed chick and houses all the food and water it needs for about 21 days until hatching.