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.
DNA or Deoxyribonucleic acid is known as a polymer. The structure of DNA was co-discovered in 1953 by English molecular biologist, Francis Harry Compton Crick. He discovered the structure with the help of James D. Watson. He won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962.