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Evolution of the Egg
Chimkens
Egg Whites
All about that Yolk
Easter Basket
100

Evolutionary Biologists believe that the chicken was domesticated in this area of the world.

What is Asia or Southeast Asia

100

It takes roughly this long for a domesticated chicken to lay an egg.

What is a day or 25 hours

100

The egg white is mostly this substance

What is water

100

Feeding chickens one of these two types of food will turn the yolk more yellow

What is corn or alfalfa
100

This is also known as the shell gland

What is the uterus

200

Before Sexual reproduction organisms reproduced through this process.

What is mitosis or asexual reproduction

200
Compared to domesticated chickens this is how wild chickens lay eggs

In batches only a few times per year

200

The first layer of the egg white is extra thick and is used to suspend the yolk called this. 

What is the chalazae

200

The nutrients for the yolk come from this part of the chicken

What is the liver

200

Which of these is not part of the egg shell:

Cellulose

Calcium Carbonate

Protein

Air holes

What is cellulose

300

These organisms lay their eggs in water but can live in both water and land

What are amphibians

300
If you don't wash your chicken or eat a raw egg, you could get this disease. 
What is salmonella
300

This is the number of layers in an egg white

What is 4

300

The yolk has enough nutrients to sustain the developing chick for this long

What is 21 days

300
According to the water test, if an egg does this it has gone bad
What is floats
400

Greeks did not have access to chicken eggs until late into their civilization. From which bird did they get there eggs?

What are quail

400

Chickens convert this much of their body weight into making eggs

What is 3%

400

This protein binds to iron and prevents bacteria from consuming it

What is ovotransferrin

400

The yolk takes up this much weight in an egg

What is 1/3 or 33%
400

After the egg is hatched, this forms near the blunt end which allows the chick to breathe

What is the air pocket or air cell

500

Bird and most lizards are oviparous meaning that they are this. 

Egg layers or they give birth to eggs

500

This species of bird comes from the United States and is known as a dual purpose bird

What is either the rhode island red or the plymouth rock

500

Egg whites have small amounts of this substance which turn it brown when exposed to heat for a long time. 

Glucose

500

This type of nutrient is only found in the egg yolk and not the egg white. 

What is fat or cholesterol

500

This is the name of Mr. Turner's cat

What is Alice