In Bacon's method, the next step after making Tables of Presence and Absence is to:

A. apply deductive logic to the Tables.
B. construct Tables of Increase and Decrease.

C. compare the Tables of Presence and Absence to each other.
D. make guesses about the form and check them against the Tables.

E. deduce the character of the form under investigation.


Answer: D

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