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kilobases

kilobases is the plural of kilobase.

Meaning of kilobase

Noun

kilobase (plural kilobases)

  1. A length of double-stranded DNA containing two thousand nucleotides, one thousand on each strand.
  2. A length of single-stranded RNA containing one thousand nucleotides.

Questions about kilobases

What is kilobases the plural of?
Kilobases is the plural of kilobase.

Words near kilobases in the dictionary

  1. kilobase
  2. kilobase pair
  3. kilobase pairs
  4. kilobasepair
  5. kilobasepairs
  6. kilobases
  7. kilobaud
  8. kilobauds
  9. kilobecquerel
  10. kilobecquerels
  11. kilobequerel

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