What's the difference between fauna and group?

Fauna


Definition:

  • (n.) The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The composition of the Trichostrongyloidea fauna of Chiroptera and its relationship with Trichostrongyloidea from other Mammals (Tupaiidae, Pholidotes, Primates, Sciuridés) are analysed.
  • (2) Opponents say that by giving development plans green credentials that may be spurious, offsetting speeds up planning approvals in practice, and limits natural environments for flora and fauna in absolute terms.
  • (3) According to the difference in pesticide content in fish tissues in spring and autumn we can localize the source of COP contamination of water fauna and terrestrial ecosystems of different protected areas possessing water bodies.
  • (4) White-tailed deer harbored 19 species of parasites; all were typical of the parasite fauna of this species in coastal regions of the southeastern United States.
  • (5) Protozoal contribution to the microbial N flowing from the rumen of animals with normal fauna was estimated to be 24 and 27% with and without the urea supplement respectively.
  • (6) 1), are from the Paskapoo Formation, at Cochrane, Alberta, Canada, from beds yielding a diverse mammalian fauna of early Tiffanian age.
  • (7) The rest part of the fauna consists of the different mites got into house by chance.
  • (8) The absorption and retention of Cu was 38-50% higher in the fauna-free than in the faunated rams.
  • (9) The parasite fauna of Stellifer minor taken off Chorrillos, Perú, include the monogeneans Pedocotyle annakohni, Pedocotyle bravoi, Rhamnocercus sp.
  • (10) A comparative evaluation of the fauna structure, numbers and frequency of the allergenic mites in the flat dust of the allergic patients and healthy people as well as premises is given.
  • (11) For all these reasons, the cost evaluation must take into account the sanitary sector, keeping in mind the difficulty to appraise the consequential effects on climate and fauna.
  • (12) On the whole the helminth fauna of fishes examined at the Saya-de-Malya bank does not demonstrate the endemic pattern.
  • (13) The low population densities and impermanent settlements of Amazonian Indians are often interpreted as adaptations to a fauna that offers limited protein resources and is rapidly depleted by hunting.
  • (14) The polling was conducted by Nielsen for the Humane Society International (HSI) and the Vietnam Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites).
  • (15) gambiae s. l. is responsible for the transmission of malaria, it represents 93.27% of the anopheline fauna.
  • (16) "We always find deposits of mega-fauna and, on occasion, we find arrowheads next to them," said Rincón.
  • (17) Nematospiroides dubius, Corrigia vitta and Capillaria murissylvatici were important in discriminating between the parasite faunas at different sites.
  • (18) Data on fauna of bloodsucking mosquitos (Culicidae), obtained during the survey in the irrigated part of Takhta-Kupyr District of Kara-Kalpakia in 1988-1989, are presented.
  • (19) Daniel Steadman, from Fauna & Flora International, which produces The Good Scrub Guide , said the loopholes were unacceptable: “When the public say they do not want microbeads, they do not expect a technical discussion about what microbeads are, they want products that don’t cause environmental pollution after they use them.
  • (20) No Monte Desert rodent has developed the specialized desert traits that have evolved in most desert rodent faunas of the world, although extinct marsupials similar to living bipedal desert rodents were present in the Monte as recently as late Pliocene.

Group


Definition:

  • (n.) A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
  • (n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.
  • (n.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.
  • (n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
  • (n.) To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
  • (2) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
  • (3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
  • (4) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
  • (5) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
  • (6) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
  • (7) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (8) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
  • (9) The second group only with Haloperidol (same dose).
  • (10) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
  • (11) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
  • (12) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
  • (13) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
  • (14) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
  • (15) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
  • (16) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
  • (17) The intrauterine mean active pressure (MAP) in the nulliparous group was 1.51 kPa (SD 0.45) in the first stage and 2.71 kPa (SD 0.77) in the second stage.
  • (18) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
  • (19) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
  • (20) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.