Meaning

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

Origin

From mega- + base pair.

From mega- + base pair.

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Forms

plural: megabase pairs
Singularmegabase pair
Pluralmegabase pairs

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

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