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megabase pair

noun

megabase pair

noun

Etymology From mega- + base pair.

1

Biology, Genetics, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences One million base pairs in succession (used as a measure of the size of a nucleic acid or a gene).

Related terms
kilobase, kilobase pair

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.