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Biology is one of the basic, but integrative sciences. Contemporary biology requires knowledge in mathematics, physics, chemistry and even computer science. It’s not so easy to improve biology education if you do not improve education in other basic natural disciplines. It is well known that even clever biologist hardly can be involved in physics, chemistry or mathematic, however specialists in chemistry, physics or mathematic can perform biology experiments. So, what’s the point in biology education, if other specialists can also do this job? The point is in an integrative biological knowledge that students should receive and accept to elucidate results of the experiments. We have compared undergraduate students from three faculties in our University: Soil Faculty, Faculty of Biology and Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics. Students from these faculties have rather similar programs, but only those, who have more courses in mathematic are more prominent. Enhanced biologist should know every basic discipline and also have to be able to draw a whole picture of the biological process or phenomena.