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- noun Plural form of
kilobase .
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Examples
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A nick is made in one strand of the duplex at a distance of up to 1 to 2 kilobases from the mismatch.
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"kilobases" to "micromillimeters" one becomes lost as to what the purpose of the metric system is.
Jakarta IMC Newswire 2009
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"kilobases" to "micromillimeters" one becomes lost as to what the purpose of the metric system is.
Indymedia Ireland 2008
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"kilobases" to "micromillimeters" one becomes lost as to what the purpose of the metric system is.
Jakarta IMC Newswire 2008
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"kilobases" to "micromillimeters" one becomes lost as to what the purpose of the metric system is.
Jakarta IMC Newswire 2008
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Length varies with organism from a few kilobases to 3 billion in humans.
Echoes of Zeus: Thunder and Lightning are Supernatural According to DI's Egnor - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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We deleted two large non-coding intervals, 1,511 kilobases and 845 kilobases in length, from the mouse genome.
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We deleted two large non-coding intervals, 1,511 kilobases and 845 kilobases in length, from the mouse genome.
So Much Junk in the Genome... and the Press - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Our specific interest in this project, however, was to identify small genomic changes that affect regions a few hundred kilobases (kb) in size, with the goal of discovering novel oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mitsutaka Kadota et al. 2010
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A remarkable fraction of vertebrate introns have a minimal size of about 100 bp, while majority of introns expand to several kilobases even megabases in length.
Elites TV PLoS ONE 2010
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