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The study of how living and extinct organisms are related to one another is simple. This study is called evolution.

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Q: What is the study of how living and extinct organisms are related to one another?
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How are extinct organisms related to other extinct organisms as well as living organisms?

By the way they look, (their bone structure, body weight) and DNA too.


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All the ones not extinct.


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Is a pathogen beneficial to humans harmful to only plants harmful to living organisms or nearly extinct?

Pathogen means "disease-causing" (pathos-: suffering, disease; -gen: begetting) Therefore: "harmful to living organisms" For the other answers: beneficial organisms are not pathogens; harmful only to plants are specifically plant pathogens; "nearly extinct" has no relevance in this question.


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