When Mendel began his experiment what was the idea most scientists believed about
inheritance?

Mendel gets his due eventually

The chromosome theory of inheritance, or the idea that we receive a combination of traits from each parent carried on a set of distinct pairs, was proposed in 1902 and was the first study to rely heavily on Mendel's ideas of dominant and recessive traits.

not sure might be he acquired the entire oregon territory from great britain

ok whats to talk about were you scared or what?