Sentence examples for may become fixed from inspiring English sources

On examination, the thick, fibrous tissue may become fixed and palpable.

By chance, one population may become fixed for allele A1, while a second population becomes fixed for another allele A2.

At that time, old offers may become fixed or loaded, not-yet-offered cargoes may become offered, and new offers and probable cargoes may be added.  .

Even if consensus is reached on the function specific unification as a transitional phase, completion of ECEC integration would be hard to realize because the transitional phase may become fixed.

For instance, individuals with orthorexia may become fixed on only eating "organic" or on the concept of "clean eating".

While Barbie, and the image of Barbie, may become fixed for each person as they pass into different life stages, she is brand new for each little girl.

Alleles that grant some evolutionary advantage (reproduction and survival) may overcome almost any reproductive barrier, and may eventually become fixed in all exposed gene pools (Piálek and Barton 1997; Morjan and Rieseberg 2004).

We suggest that inteins may not become fixed in a population, but that their presence/absence may be polymorphic in a particular species.

Transposition of a lowly expressed gene from a lagging strand to a leading strand may not offer a sufficient selective advantage and therefore may not become fixed so easily in the population.

The distinction between patrician and plebeian families may have become fixed only by the middle of the 4th century bc; and the law of that time (367 bc), which specified that one of the consuls was to be plebeian, may have done nothing more than to guarantee legally that both groups of the nobility would have an equal share in the state's highest office.

Some appear to have major functional impacts on the organism, others may have become fixed (uniformly present in descendant lineages) solely due to morphogenetic constraints.