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Kilobase vs Megabase - What's the difference?

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Megabase is a related term of kilobase.



As nouns the difference between kilobase and megabase

is that kilobase is a length of double-stranded DNA containing two thousand nucleotides, one thousand on each strand while megabase is a length of double-stranded DNA containing two million nucleotides, one million on each strand.

kilobase

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a length of , one thousand on each strand
  • a length of

    • Synonyms

    * Kb * Kbp (Def 1 only)

    Related terms

    * megabase

    megabase

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A length of double-stranded DNA containing two million nucleotides, one million on each strand.
  • A length of single-stranded RNA containing one million nucleotides

    • Synonyms

    *Mb *Mbp (Def 1 only)

    Related terms

    *kilobase