What did Mendel study at the time?

Step-by-step solution

In the previous chapter, you have learnt the inheritance patterns and the genetic basis of such patterns. At the time of Mendel, the nature of those ‘factors’ regulating the pattern of inheritance was not clear . Over the next hundred years, the nature of the putative genetic material was investigated, culminating in the realization that DNA – deoxyribonucleic acid – is the genetic material, at least for the majority of organisms. In class XI you have learnt that nucleic acids are polymers of nucleotides and the wa