Science and Technology

Is extinction when there are no descendants of a life form?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/extinction-there-no-descendants-life-form-150704.html" >Is extinction when there are no descendants of a life form?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

If no member of the affected species survives and reproduces, the entire line dies out, leaving no descendants.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about extinction . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: Are species extinct if they have no offspring? Does it mean a species is extinct if it has no descendants? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Resisting the road to extinction: As developers move in and a coastal highway...
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) ...threatened with extinction as the older...sewing all my life," she said...people, direct descendants of the slaves...construction, there is often no place to stop...African art forms practiced in...wanted. Now there are more stores...
A WEB PAGE FOR EVERY SPECIES.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Whole Earth Consider: There may be 30 million...throughout their lives? Some might...How many are there? Has it appeared...CLAN FOR EVERY LIFE-FORM The...their life-form with a totemic...do now with no multispecies...nonhuman life-forms connected to...attended to. ...
Darwin, Thomists, and secondary causality.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics ...who held that forms in themselves...to show that there is a connection...created." (3) No doubt Darwin...production and extinction of the past...as the lineal descendants of some few...contends that no special intervention...struggle for life and natural...argument makes ...
Cat of the future; DON'T BOTHER TO LEAVE THE MILK OUT..(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) ...it a joke? No, it's Flamingo...terrifying life-forms which will...Another rat descendant will be the...Another crow descendant, the MOONRACER...have joined to form one massive...million years there are likely...matter. "Mass extinction could have...fantasy. ...
Death in the family tree. (global decline of primates)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: World Watch ...confer on their descendants a power without...entire history of life. Two million...role. We are no longer molded...learning that there is a price to...dominance - and no one is paying...hemispheres. But there was still at...threatened with extinction, and the IUCN...loss and ...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.