[Solved] How was Mendel's work ultimately reconciled with Darwin's theory of natural selection during the evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s?

Q.	How was Mendel's work ultimately reconciled with Darwin's theory of natural selection during the evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s?
A.	Scientists recognized that once one thinks about species as populations, rather than individuals, there is no incompatibility between them.
B.	Mendel's theory was replaced by the mutation theory.
C.	It was recognized much of the variation we observe in nature is due to recombination, rather than mutation.
D.	A and C.
Answer» D. A and C.

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