a unit of length equal to the length of 1000 base pairs of a nucleic acid
kilobase
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Noun
(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
Origin
Formed through affixing the prefix kilo- (one thousand) to the noun base (colloquial for a nucleotide in DNA or RNA).
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