In what sense are studies by nineteenth-century naturalists and those by early twenty-first-century genomic biologists similar?

A) Both focused on cellular evolution.
B) Both worked to understand how genes evolved.
C) Both took a reductionist approach by studying only one small part of a complex system.
D) Both focused on observing and describing what exists in their realms of investigation.


D

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