Biology (Master of Science)

The Master of Science is a thesis degree in which research conducted by the student under the direction of a thesis mentor culminates in the writing of a thesis and a defense of the thesis research. Thesis research may be undertaken in the areas of animal and plant physiology, vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, ecology, behavior, developmental biology, systematics and evolution, microbiology, cell and molecular biology, virology, immunology, parasitology, and genetics.