Read the following statements:(a) At the time of Mendel, the nature of ‘factors’ regulating the pattern of inheritance was not clear.(b) Over the next hundred years, the nature of the genetic material was investigated and found to be DNA for the majority of organisms.

At the time of Mendel, the nature of ‘factors’ regulating the pattern of inheritance was not clear. Something that was passed on as it is generation after generation was termed as factors.Over the next hundred years, the nature of the genetic material was investigated and found to be DNA for the majority of organisms.