
Metadata
- Author: Finshots
- Full Title: Sunny Side Up: The Chicken-Egg conundrum, India’s Swiggy scorecard, and sales strategies
- URL: https://finshots.in/archive/the-chicken-egg-conundrum-indias-swiggy-scorecard-climate-change-and-sales-strategies/
Highlights
- In 2010, scientists from the University of Sheffield and the University of Warwick wondered what made up the hard outer protection of an eggshell. And they discovered that it was all thanks to a protein called ovocleidin or OC-17. This OC-17 helped convert calcium carbonate in a chicken’s body into calcite crystals, thus forming egg shells. So the only way that egg shells could be formed is if the chicken came first. (View Highlight)