Sentence examples for whether extant from inspiring English sources

Whether extant accounts are satisfactory in this respect is subject to debate.

These conceptual viewpoints are complemented by multiple field studies that attempt to quantify whether extant restored systems are novel or not.

Any analysis of a problem, whether extant or solved, requires an understanding of the terms employed.

It is unknown whether extant deep-sea nematode species represent relatively recent radiations or older lineages.

The inclusion of extinct metatherians investigated whether extant diversity is contradicted in the fossil record and is a particular condition of the present.

Further survey efforts are needed to determine whether extant Oculina spp. populations exist in the eastern North Atlantic, and whether they are the source of O. patagonica.

It is unclear whether the extant pneumococcal pseudogene has resulted from the accumulation of mutations, or whether a gain-of-function mechanism resulted in the presence of a complete open reading frame in some SMG.

Therefore, it has been debated whether the extant wild camel is the progenitor of the domestic bactrian camel or whether the wild camel is actually an escapee from feral domestic camels, resulting from poor management of domestic herds (Zhao 1985).

The question arises whether all extant techniques are applicable to negative tie data.

Nevertheless, she observes, Mackie is wrong and the realist is right with respect to whether any extant entities can meet the dual criteria of providing the agent who knows of them with "both a direction and a motive".

The overall significance of the palindromy in the coding sequences of HMM-defined domains, whether in extant taxa or in their evolutionary antecedents, is not clear.