English
Pronunciation
IPA|/ˈkɪl.ə.beɪs/
SAMPA|/"kIl.@.beIs/
Etymology
formed through affixing the prefix kilo- (one thousand) to the noun base (colloquial for a nucleotide in DNA or RNA)
Noun
kilobase (plural kilobases)
#a length of Wikipedia:DNA|double-stranded DNA containing two thousand Wikipedia:Nucleotide|nucleotides, one thousand on each strand
#a length of Wikipedia:RNA|single-stranded RNA containing one thousand Wikipedia:Nucleotide|nucleotides
Abbreviations
Kb
Kbp (Def 1 only)
Related terms
megabase
fr:kilobase
ru:kilobase
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