The Nobel Prize for deciphering the language of bees was awarded to
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- AH.G. Khurana
- BK.V. FrischCorrect
- CJulian Huxley
- DDorothy Hodgkins
Explanation
The correct answer is B because Karl von Frisch was an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973. He shared the prize with Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen for their discoveries concerning the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns. Von Frisch is specifically celebrated for his pioneering research on honeybees, where he successfully decoded their dance language, such as the waggle dance, which bees use to communicate the direction and distance of food sources to other members of the hive.
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