The phrase "acquire a character" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of developing or adopting a particular personality trait or persona, often in the context of acting or storytelling.
Example: "In order to fully embody the role, the actor needed to acquire a character that resonated with the audience."
Alternatives: "develop a persona" or "assume a character".
"It acquires a character after a while," she said.
However, interestingly many of these students who thought that the acquired characters are not inherited did say that if organisms in each of the successive generations keep acquiring a character, the acquired character is inherited: the tail-cutting in each generation would "work in the end, given time" (p. 306).
If enough experience points are acquired, a character's level will increase.
Because strong migratory and invasive abilities are also characteristic of metastatic cells, it has been suggested that epithelial cell-derived tumours acquire a mesenchymal character during tumour progression.
As early gastrula anterior endoderm is required for efficient cardiogenesis in Xenopus embryos and explants [2], we examined its ability to induce cardiac fate in pluripotent animal caps, which normally give rise to ectodermal derivatives and acquire an epidermal character when cultured alone.
Thus, at stage 4, BMP signals are required for prospective caudal border cells to acquire neural crest character, and in the absence of BMP activity cells acquire a caudal neural character.
In principle these are simply "foundations", like non-profit American foundations such as Carnegie or Ford, but one often finds that in Scandinavia such foundations acquire a semi-governmental character.
"I have begun to acquire a composed, genteel character very different from the rattling, uncultivated one which for some time past I have been fond of," wrote James Boswell in his journal for 1762.
Through framing and keying, numbers acquire a three-dimensional character combining calculative, symptomatic and existential qualities.
In fact, albeit nanorough gold surfaces are fairly hydrophilic (with a static water contact angle WCA) of approximately 25°) as compared to their flat counterpart (static WCA of approximately 85°), after incubation with the bacterial culture medium, both nanotopographies acquire a rather hydrophilic character (WCA of approximately 10° and 30° for nanorough and flat samples, respectively).
