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Linda B. Buck has mainly studied on which organ of the human body?

  • Heart

  • Lungs

  • Brain

  • Nose

Answer

Linda B. Buck mainly studied the human nose. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004 for her work on the sense of smell. She and her colleague Richard Axel discovered that the sense of smell is mediated by receptors in the nose that bind to specific odorant molecules.
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