meal, repast(noun) the food served and eaten at one time. meal(noun) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times. meal(noun) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse.
Encoders turn mechanical motion into an electrical signal that is used by the control system to monitor specific parameters of the application and make adjustments if necessary to maintain the machine operating as desired.
Because unrelated people will almost definitely differ in their number of repeats, STRs can be used to confidently discriminate between unrelated persons. DNA is isolated from material collected at the crime scene. The STR loci are amplified by PCR using sequence-specific primers. These primers are designed in such a way that they can amplify the STR loci from any individual. The resulting DNA fragments are then processed using electrophoresis.