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noun (plural megabases)
  1. a length of Wikipedia:DNA, double-stranded DNA containing two million Wikipedia:Nucleotide, nucleotides, one million on each strand
  2. a length of Wikipedia:RNA, single-stranded RNA containing one million Wikipedia:Nucleotide, nucleotides
Etymology: formed through affixing the prefix mega- (one million) to the noun base (colloquial for a nucleotide in DNA or RNA)

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