The phrase "retain characteristic" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe something that still contains a certain quality or quality that it has always had. For example: "This old building has managed to retain its characteristic charm over the years."
Finally, we find that covalent phytochrome dimers created for these experiments retain characteristic photoreversibility, unexpectedly arguing against a dramatic rearrangement of the native GAF dimer interface upon photoconversion.
Electrospray ionization (ESI) is the softest ionization method that is currently available and it is widely accepted, that ESI generated ions of proteins and protein assemblies at certain conditions retain characteristic aspects of their solution-state conformation.
Although morphologically very similar, fibroblasts derived from different anatomical locations retain characteristic epigenetic patterns of gene expression during in vitro culture [ 45].
These cells retain characteristic of PGCs while they undergo resetting of the epigenome and global DNA demethylation (Hackett et al., 2012).
Fibroblasts isolated from diseased patients or animal models typically retain characteristics of their altered phenotype in vitro [ 63].
Ten years ago, non-pregnant human myometrial cells were immortalized using telomerase and investigated for their ability to retain characteristics of the myometrium.
It is not surprising, and certainly significant, that regions of the brain that retain characteristics of the embryonic environment in which the brain was generated are crucial for the maintenance of stem cells that retain the capacity for generating neurons.
The SP-Cpos/CCSPpos bronchioloalveolar progenitors express progenitor markers, such as the NANOG, BMI1 and OCT4 genes, in vivo and in vitro, indicating that newborn lung progenitors retain characteristics typical of progenitors residing in the developing organ.
The study of primate-specific gene creation and early evolution requires the discovery of genes that have retained characteristic features of their youth [ 26].
Although it does receive some state money, the university is privately chartered and retains characteristics of a private institution.
Another lesser-known species, the fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), is regarded as a viverrid but retains characteristics of cats as well.
