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Definition of Kilobases
1. kilobase [n] - See also: kilobase
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kilobases
Literary usage of Kilobases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biotechnology: Ti-Plasmids and Other Plant Vectors: Bibliography January by Lara Wiggert (1995)
"Collectively these deletions span 1400 kilobases of ... derivative which carries
only 450 kilobases of the ..."
2. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"Lengths of transcripts in kilobases visualized by autoradiography were determined
using a logarithmic standard curve generated from migration distances of ..."
3. Manual of Microbiologic Monitoring of Laboratory Animals edited by Kim Waggie (1994)
"... single-stranded DNA genome of about 5.1 kilobases. Over 99% of virions package
a negative-sense DNA. This small genome is sufficient to code for 2 ..."
4. Ending the War Metaphor: The Changing Agenda for Unraveling the Host-Microbe by Forum on Microbial Threats, Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (2006)
"The RNA pool is complex, and targets can range in si/.e from 100 bases to several
kilobases. Fragmentation is a chemical nuclease reaction, ..."
5. Biotechnology of Algae: A Bibliography by Virginia Stone (1992)
"It is 1.7 kilobases in size and is present in at least five copies in the genome
of Anabaena sp. strain PCC 1720. Codon Usage in Higher Plants, Green Algae, ..."
6. Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing and Biology by John C. Wooley, Herbert Lin (2005)
"... the organism with the smallest known chromosome (the complete genome sequence
is 580 kilobases).48 E-CELL has also been used to construct a computer ..."
7. Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics by Edward R Dougherty (2005)
"To screen for a wide range of heterozygous mutations in the 3.45 kilobases exon
11 of the hereditary breast and ovarian cancer gene BRCA1, a glass-based DNA ..."
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