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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