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Q44 (IAS/1995) Science & Technology › Basic Science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology) › Animal diversity behaviour Answer Verified

The Nobel Prize for deciphering the language of bees was awarded to

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The Nobel Prize for deciphering the “language” of bees — specifically the discovery that honeybees communicate the location of food sources via the waggle dance — was awarded to Karl von Frisch. His pioneering ethological work on bee communication earned him the Nobel Prize in 1973, explicitly linking him to the waggle dance discovery [1]. Other options are separate Nobel laureates in different fields: Dorothy Hodgkin received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on vitamin B12 structure, which is unrelated to bee communication [2]. Thus the correct choice for the researcher who deciphered bee language is K.V. Frisch (option 2) [2].

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  1. [1] https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Karl_von_Frisch
  2. [2] Science-Class VII . NCERT(Revised ed 2025) > Chapter 6: Adolescence: A Stage of Growth and Change > Know a Scientist > p. 80
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