Explore Kilobases through 6 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Kilobases in a sentence
Kilobases meaning
plural of kilobase
Using Kilobases
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of kilobase
- In the example corpus, kilobases often appears in combinations such as: kilobases in.
Context around Kilobases
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kilobases
- In this selection, "kilobases" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, few, 300 and away stand out and add context to how "kilobases" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 100 300 kilobases of telomere and a few kilobases. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kilobases" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kilobases
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
RNA phage such as MS2 have the smallest genomes of only a few kilobases. (14 words)
The genomes in this group vary considerably from ~10 kilobases to over 2.5 megabases in length. (17 words)
There are an additional 100-300 kilobases of telomere-associated repeats between the telomere and the rest of the chromosome. (20 words)
Telomere length varies greatly between species, from approximately 300 base pairs in yeast citation to many kilobases in humans, and usually is composed of arrays of guanine -rich, six- to eight-base-pair-long repeats. (35 words)
The Bacillariodnaviridae infect diatoms and have a unique genome: the major chromosome is circular (~6 kilobases in length): the minor chromosome is linear (~1 kilobase in length) and complementary to part of the major chromosome. (35 words)
Gene promoters are typically located upstream of the gene and can have regulatory elements several kilobases away from the transcriptional start site (enhancers). (23 words)
Example sentences (6)
Gene promoters are typically located upstream of the gene and can have regulatory elements several kilobases away from the transcriptional start site (enhancers).
RNA phage such as MS2 have the smallest genomes of only a few kilobases.
Telomere length varies greatly between species, from approximately 300 base pairs in yeast citation to many kilobases in humans, and usually is composed of arrays of guanine -rich, six- to eight-base-pair-long repeats.
The Bacillariodnaviridae infect diatoms and have a unique genome: the major chromosome is circular (~6 kilobases in length): the minor chromosome is linear (~1 kilobase in length) and complementary to part of the major chromosome.
The genomes in this group vary considerably from ~10 kilobases to over 2.5 megabases in length.
There are an additional 100-300 kilobases of telomere-associated repeats between the telomere and the rest of the chromosome.
Common combinations with kilobases
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- kilobases in 2×