生物技术被认为是一门支持学科，可以包括在生理学，营养学，遗传学/基因组学和生产管理等多个领域的研究生课程中。动物科学专业的学生可以选择将生物技术课程作为其研究生计划的一部分。另外，学生可以选择一条更正式的路线，并在其研究生课程中专门包括生物技术的未成年人。生物技术辅修课程要求至少六个小时的研究生水平的生物技术课程和一个涉及生物技术的领域的论文研究项目。<br> 在动物科学中的学生象征着一个学生在没有监督的情况下进行高级原创研究和学术工作的能力。该学位是根据学生在专业领域的综合知识和奖学金证明而授予的。学生
Biotechnology is considered a support discipline and can be included in graduate programs in a variety of areas including physiology, nutrition, genetics/genomics and production management. Animal Science students can choose to include biotechnology courses as part of their plan of graduate work. Alternatively, students can choose a more formal route and specifically include a minor in Biotechnology in their graduate program. The biotechnology minor requires at least six hours of graduate-level biotechnology courses and a thesis research project in an area involving biotechnology.<br>A Ph.D. in Animal Science symbolizes a student's ability to conduct high-level original research and scholarly work without supervision. The degree is granted upon the student's demonstration of a comprehensive knowledge and scholarship in a specialized field of study. The student is required to write a dissertation reporting the results of an original investigation, pass a series of preliminary comprehensive examinations in the field of specialization and related areas of knowledge, and successfully defend the dissertation. The Department of Animal Science offers top-tier teaching, research and extension programs that help our faculty and students address critical issues facing the animal industry here and around the world. We develop knowledge that improves the efficiency and sustainability of animal agriculture, biomedical science and animal management.