The phrase "and dissimilar groups of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing or comparing different categories or types of groups that are not alike in some way.
Example: "The study focused on the interactions between similar and dissimilar groups of participants in the experiment."
Alternatives: "and different groups of" or "and diverse groups of".
With its magnificent collection of classical Greek and Roman sculpture housed in a former electric power station built just after the turn of the 20th century, the museum ingeniously brings together the aesthetic of two eras widely separated by time — and persuades you that these two very distant and dissimilar groups of objects were made to be shown with (and complement) each other.
We compared cooperation during group feeding in genetically similar and dissimilar groups of juveniles from S. tentoriicola, using a protocol previously applied to S. lineatus [ 7].
In addition, areal feature vectors were further analyzed by means of a multidimensional scaling (MDS; Systat 12) to detect similar and dissimilar groups of areas.
However, all other aspects are remarkably dissimilar: 1) the different groups of co-regulated genes have very different sizes.
Letters were similar within a group and dissimilar across groups.
The sign and value of coefficients are quite dissimilar in comparison with different groups of countries.
Acculturation [changes that take place among migrants due to contact with culturally dissimilar groups and influences, such as the uptake of risky health behaviours (Hawkins et al. 2008)] has been posited as an explanatory process for this deterioration (Hill et al. 2012).
Here, bioactive compounds for each DUD-E target were first clustered into a collection of chemically dissimilar groups using SUBSET [36] and a TC similarity threshold of 0.7.
Comparing disease specific survival and progression free survival of LPA-signature-positive versus dissimilar groups, the LPA-positive patients exhibit a significantly reduced time of survival.
Considering that Hmong, Vietnamese and Koreans have very different migration and settlement histories, cultures, and occupy different socioeconomic positions in US society, health selection and origin country conditions may be insufficient to explain why such dissimilar groups would display a similar pattern of attenuated educational effects on PTB.
The teacher's problem is to coordinate the work of those small, dissimilar groups in such a way that all get attention.
