A Hike on the Beach
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Current Step: Question 9
   
 

 

Select the most correct answer for the statements (A and B) below.

 

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Abductive arguments often postulate unobserved entities.

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Based on his observations of the characteristics exhibited by successive generations of plants, Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), postulated the existence of genes—entities that could not be detected with the microscopes of his time. His argument for the existence of genes can be considered an abductive argument.