symbols, acronyms & abbreviations

kb

1

kilobit (information technology). Not the officially-approved term, but universally used.

2

thousands of base pairs (genomics)

“Complete sequencing of the centromeres of rice chromosomes 4 and 8 revealed that they consist of 59 kb and 69 kb of clustered CentO repeats respectively, ...”

International Rice Genome Sequencing Project.
The map-based sequence of the rice genome.
Nature, vol. 436, page 793 (11 August 2005).

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