Walter Sutton discovered that chromosomes are the basis of heredity and this explained the segregation of alleles in Mendel's law of segregation. Basically alleles and chromosomes in Mendel's explanation are the same thing.
Answer:
Hydrolysis reactions use water to breakdown polymers into monomers and is the opposite of dehydration synthesis, which forms water when synthesizing a polymer from monomers. Hydrolysis reactions break bonds and release energy.
