Medical term:

Kilobase



kil·o·base (kb),

(kil'ō-bās),
Unit used in designating the length of a nucleic acid sequence; 1 kb equals a sequence of 1000 purine or pyrimidine bases.
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kilobase

A unit of measurement of the length of a DNA or RNA sequence equal to 1000 base pairs of DNA or 1000 bases of RNA.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005

kilobase (kb)

1000 BASES of DNA or RNA, used as a unit of length of single-stranded molecules. The kilobase is often also used as the unit of length for double-stranded molecules, though these should more correctly be measured in kilobase pairs (kbp).
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005


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