ELI5- Does an egg’s protein levels change as the chick develop?

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I watching a survival show and one of the survival experts said that an egg with a chick inside has more protein. I understand an egg is laid with all the nutrients necessary for a chick to grow inside so I wondered how a an egg with a chick inside could have more protein than an egg with just the whites and yolk.

Edit: slight rephrasing of the question to be more clear.

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Protein is made of amino acids and they are quite stable, and animals are not able to produce amino acids(they can make one acid into another tho) therefore since a egg is a closed system, the amino acid content, and thus the protein is constant.

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