Sentence examples for becoming fixed from inspiring English sources

In a student's language, It doesn't make sense for one of them [that is, one of the traits] to become fixed, because when I think of something becoming fixed in a population, it becomes that way because it's an advantage.

It doesn't make sense for one of them [that is, one of the traits] to become fixed, because when I think of something becoming fixed in a population, it becomes that way because it's an advantage.

Because deleterious mutations have a vanishingly small probability of becoming fixed in a population, most substitutions (i.e., fixed mutations) would be neutral.

Many RNA viruses also have high substitution rates – defined here as the rate at which mutations become established within populations – which reflects the probability of arising mutations becoming fixed within virus populations, and is subject to the effects of processes such as natural selection [ 12, 13], competition with other mutations [ 14], and overall viral population dynamics [ 15, 16].

When a phrase is familiar enough to take such wordplay, that is evidence that it is becoming fixed in the lexicon.

That has not stopped it becoming fixed in the collective memory of supporters, though – and it was a great goal, worthy of its legendary status.

With the general election imminent, voters are beginning to pay attention, and attitudes are becoming more fixed.

The historical pattern is that when the Dow rises from the end of July through the end of October -- the period when the attention of voters is becoming most fixed on the presidential election, the incumbent party keeps the White House.

A dedicated artist like Gray runs the danger of becoming so fixed on a single obsessive relationship that he forgets that a movie requires at least a few more good ideas.

So, after the delirious pitch invasion at Stoke's Britannia Stadium, at Wembley on Saturday it was Hull City's turn to reach the promised land, promotion to the Premier League, an elevation becoming dangerously fixed in the public's mind as a £60m "bonanza".

Writing of the evolution of human cooperation, Darwin predicted that "looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker, and we may expect that virtuous habits will grow stronger, becoming perhaps fixed by inheritance.