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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001437749-21-007422
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20210329

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			BIO-TECHNE Corp
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000842023
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS (NO DIAGNOSTIC SUBSTANCES) [2836]
		IRS NUMBER:				411427402
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MN
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0630

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		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		614 MCKINLEY PL N E
		CITY:			MINNEAPOLIS
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55413
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6123798854

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		614 MCKINLEY PLACE NE
		CITY:			MINNEAPOLIS
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55413

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	TECHNE CORP /MN/
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;">March 29, 2021</p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;">Office of Life Sciences</p>

<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;">United States Securities and Exchange Commission<br>
Division of Corporation Finance</p>

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Washington, D.C. 20549-7010</p>

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			<p style="margin: 0pt; text-align: left; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Bio-Techne Corporation</b><br>
			<b>Form</b> <b>10-K for Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2020</b></p>

			<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin: 0pt;"><b>Filed August 26, 2020</b></p>

			<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin: 0pt;"><b>Form 10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended December 31, 2020</b></p>

			<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin: 0pt;"><b>Filed February 8, 2021</b></p>

			<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin: 0pt;"><b>File No.</b>&nbsp;<b>000-17272</b></p>
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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 1pt;text-indent:-1pt;">Dear Office of Life Sciences:</p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 1pt;text-indent:-1pt;">This letter is written in response to the Staff&#8217;s comment letter dated March 17, 2021 on the Form&nbsp;10-K of Bio-Techne Corporation (&#8220;the Company&#8221;, &#8220;we&#8221; or &#8220;our&#8221;) for the year ended June 30, 2020 and the Form 10-Q for the period ended December 31, 2020. For ease of reference, we have included the Staff&#8217;s comment along with our response to assist in the review process.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;"><u>Form&nbsp;10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended December 31, 2020</u></p>

<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;"><u>Item 2. Management&#8217;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Net Earnings, Page 21 </u></p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;"><i>Refer to your non-GAAP adjusted tax rate reconciliation on page 22. Your reported GAAP tax rate for the quarter and six months ended December 31, 2020, does not appear to reconcile to the rates disclosed in your discussion of income taxes on page 21. In future filings, please revise your disclosures to reconcile to your tax rate on a GAAP basis and present all significant reconciling items separately. In this regard, clarify why you re-cast your first quarter results using your effective tax rate for the first six months of fiscal 2021and explain how this impacted your non-GAAP adjusted tax rate.</i></p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;"><b>Response</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;">During the quarter ended December 31, 2020, the Company updated our annualized effective tax rate per our interim accounting policy for income taxes. The Company re-cast our non-GAAP tax rate for the quarter ended September 30, 2020 within our non-GAAP results for the quarter ended December 31, 2020 due to the impact the updated tax forecast had on our quarterly non-GAAP earnings. The Company considered it appropriate to re-cast our non-GAAP tax rate as it more accurately reflected our non-GAAP earnings for the quarter ended December 31, 2020 due to the impact the updated tax forecast had on our quarterly earnings. The change in our non-GAAP tax forecast was due to our recovery of growth rates experienced prior to the COVID-19 pandemic occurring on a more condensed timeline than previously forecasted. Re-casting our effective tax rate for the quarter ended December 31, 2020 reduced our quarterly non-GAAP net earnings.</p>

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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Non-GAAP adjusted net earnings attributable to Bio-Techne</p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Non-GAAP adjusted net earnings growth attributable to Bio-Techne</p>
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			<td id=".trail.2" nowrap="true" style="width: 1%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0pt;">%</td>
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<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 9pt;">Non-GAAP adjusted tax rate</p>

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			<td id=".trail.2" nowrap="true" style="width: 1%; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0pt;">%</td>
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			<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Discrete items</p>
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			<td id=".amt.B2" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">&nbsp;</td>
			<td id=".trail.B2" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1px;">&nbsp;</td>
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			<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">GAAP effective tax rate</p>
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			<td id=".symb.2" style="width: 1%; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td id=".amt.2" style="width: 13%; text-align: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td id=".trail.2" nowrap="true" style="width: 1%; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0pt;">%</td>
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			<td style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td style="width: 1%; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td style="width: 1%; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td style="width: 13%; text-align: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td nowrap="true" style="width: 1%; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0pt;">&nbsp;</td>
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		<tr style="vertical-align: bottom; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);">
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			<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Rate impact items</p>
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			<td id=".symb.B2" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td id=".amt.B2" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td id=".trail.B2" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
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			<td id=".symb.2" style="width: 1%; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td id=".amt.2" style="width: 13%; text-align: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td id=".trail.2" nowrap="true" style="width: 1%; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0pt;">%</td>
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			<td id=".amt.B2" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
			<td id=".trail.B2" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
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			<td id=".symb.2" style="width: 1%; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</td>
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			<td id=".trail.2" nowrap="true" style="width: 1%; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0pt;">%</td>
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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 1pt;text-indent:-1pt;">We acknowledge that we are responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing, that Staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to Staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing, and that we may not assert Staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;">On behalf of the company,&nbsp;I thank you for your consideration of our responses. Should the Staff have further questions or comments or need any further information or clarification, please do not hesitate to contact me.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 1pt;text-indent:-1pt;">Sincerely,</p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;">/s/ James T. Hippel</p>

<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 1pt;text-indent:-1pt;">James T. Hippel</p>

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