No, extirpation is a local extinction. This species does not exist elsewhere. It’s not in any gardens or greenhouses. All we have left, essentially, is its DNA. You’ve already been told that.
Or are you claiming as long as we have a species’ genetic material, it isn’t extinct? Because I’m not seeing too many mammoths around these days, but we still sequenced their genome. I’d say they’re not extirpated, I’d say they’ve been extinct for thousands of years.
Extirpation is the correct word.
No, extirpation is a local extinction. This species does not exist elsewhere. It’s not in any gardens or greenhouses. All we have left, essentially, is its DNA. You’ve already been told that.
Or are you claiming as long as we have a species’ genetic material, it isn’t extinct? Because I’m not seeing too many mammoths around these days, but we still sequenced their genome. I’d say they’re not extirpated, I’d say they’ve been extinct for thousands of years.