Meaning

1 senses
  1. One thousand base pairs in succession (used as a measure of the size of a nucleic acid or a gene).

Origin

From kilo- + base pair.

From kilo- + base pair.

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Forms

plural: kilobase pairs
Singularkilobase pair
Pluralkilobase pairs

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
kbp

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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