KILOBASE
Etymology
Noun
kilobase (plural kilobases)
a length of double-stranded DNA containing two thousand nucleotides, one thousand on each strand
a length of single-stranded RNA containing one thousand nucleotides
Synonyms
• kb
• kbp (double-stranded DNA)
• kilobase pair (double-stranded DNA)
Source: Wiktionary
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