The work of gregor mendel provided an answer to two prevailing hypotheses popular at the time. what were these two hypotheses?

The two hypotheses that provided by Gregor Mendel were:

- Blending inheritance, which conveys that when two parents produce an offspring, that offspring will have the blended characteristics from each of its parents.

- inheritance of acquired characteristics, which convey that the characteristics do not come from the parents, but it's acquired throughout the organisms' life.