Meaning of âtraitâ in the English Dictionary. See all translations. uk â /treÉªt/ us â /treÉªt/. C2 a particular characteristic that can produce a particular type of behaviour: His sense of humour is one of his better traits. Arrogance is a very unattractive personality/character trait.
It appeared in April 1953 in the scientific paper where James Watson and Francis Crick presented the structure of the DNA-helix, the molecule that carries genetic information from one generation to the other.
Rosalind Franklin used X-ray diffraction to get information about the structure of the DNA molecule. How did James Watson and Francis Crick describe the structure of a DNA molecule? Watson and Crick described the structure of a DNA molecule as a double helix, in which two strands of nucleotide sequences were wound around each other.