  We study the old problem of the uniqueness of chemical evolution models by
analyzing a set of multiphase models for the galaxy NGC 4303 computed for a
variety of plausible physical input parameters.
  Our aim is to determine if the input parameters may be strongly constrained
when nebular abundances and stellar spectral indices radial distributions are
used. We run a large number of models (500) for NGC 4303 varying the input
parameters. Less than 4% of the models (19) fit the present day observational
data within a region of 95% probability. The number of models reduces to ~1%
(6) when we also ask them to reproduce the time-averaged abundances represented
by the spectral indices. Thus, by proving that only a small fraction of models
are favored in reproducing the present day radial abundance distributions and
the spectral indices data simultaneously, we show that these spectral indices
provide strong time-dependent additional constraints to the possible star
formation and chemical histories of spiral disks.
