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Complete Definition of "megabase"

English
Etymology
formed through affixing the prefix mega- (one million) to the noun base (colloquial for a nucleotide in DNA or RNA)
Noun
megabase (plural megabases)

#a length of Wikipedia:DNA|double-stranded DNA containing two million Wikipedia:Nucleotide|nucleotides, one million on each strand
#a length of Wikipedia:RNA|single-stranded RNA containing one million Wikipedia:Nucleotide|nucleotides

Abbreviations
Mb
Mbp (Def 1 only)

Related terms
kilobase

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