The phrase "develop characteristics" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you could use it in the sentence, "Fostering a healthy relationship with their peers helps children develop positive characteristics."
Instead, they develop characteristics that look more like small-cell neuroendocrine cancer.
Gradually, ironwork designs tended to develop characteristics of an American or composite nature, as a logical consequence of the diverse origins of colonists and smiths.
Domestication is a biological process in which, under human selection, organisms develop characteristics that increase their utility, as when plants provide larger seeds, fruit, or tubers than their wild progenitors.
Lanza and his colleagues did the same in mice – but rather than testing the separated cell, they put it in a petri dish with previously derived embryonic stem cells, which provided factors that pushed it to divide and develop characteristics of stem cells.
When implanted in rodents in vivo, the engineered tissue constructs have been shown to undergo renal developmental processes, recruit vasculature, and in some cases appear to develop characteristics of mature kidney function.
Because of the way that sex is determined in people, such exposure might cause a fetus to develop characteristics more usually associated with men than women.It has been known for some time that the "default" body plan in mammals (people included) is female.
However, restored bottomland forests take decades to develop characteristic ecological functions including denitrifier activity.
Here, we develop characteristic Spacer molecules binding anticancer drug molecules on a gold NP (AuNP) and investigate cellular uptake efficiency and spatial distributions of AuNPs in a cancer cell.
By selectively internalizing and recombining elements of their experience with other people, children develop characteristic traits and dispositions.
As snow degrades, its surface can develop characteristic ablation textures such as suncups or penitentes.
Patients who have mercury poisoning often develop characteristic personality changes collectively termed erethism.
