The Nobel Prize for deciphering the language of bees was awarded to
A
H.G. Khurana
B
K.V. Frisch
C
Julian Huxley
D
Dorothy Hodgkins
Correct Answer: Option B
Explanation
1. The question asks who received the Nobel Prize for deciphering the 'waggle dance', the sophisticated method honey bees use to communicate information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers.
2. Karl von Frisch (whose name is often abbreviated as K.V. Frisch) was an Austrian ethologist who extensively studied the sensory perceptions and communication methods of honey bees.
3. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 with Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns.Von Frisch's contribution was specifically his work on deciphering the language of bees.
4. H.G. Khurana won the Nobel Prize for work related to the genetic code. Julian Huxley was an evolutionary biologist but did not win a Nobel. Dorothy Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structure of important biochemical substances using X-ray techniques.