Maybe. Undergraduate biology typically sticks to the same set of model systems (Krebs Cycle, for example) even across different courses (microbiology, biochemi

Maybe. Undergraduate biology typically sticks to the same set of model systems (Krebs Cycle, for example) even across different courses (microbiology, biochemistry, etc.) in order to reveal deeper levels of complexity within some focused context. You never really get all the edge cases at once though. I think what most biology undergraduate programs need to add - and many have - is the equivalent of a "Programming Languages" course which adds a 'state of the diversity of the field' dimension to the usual micro-/macro- dimensions. CS (speaking very generally here) tends to either drill down into low level computation or up into high level abstraction, and Bio tends to drill down into sub-cellular/molecular or up into social/behavioral/evolutionary. In CS, a course in programming languages tends to offer a nice survey of the diverse extents of the field, and a similar survey of all of life's vast biodiversity would be a welcome addition to the undergraduate curriculum, imho.