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megabase pair

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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

Word forms

megabase pair megabase pairs

Etymology

From mega- + base pair.

Related words

kilobase kilobase pair

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