![]() ![]() Our fingerprints leave behind residues of oils in the shape of our ridges, and as we’ve established, each of these shapes is unique to the individual. You can even leave prints on your body… or someone else’s body (hence how bad guys are caught). Patent FingerprintsĮverything you touch throughout the day, your keyboard, phone, laptop, door handle, has your fingerprints all over it. ![]() There are so many tiny characteristics in each person’s fingerprint that they might look similar at first glance, but the reality is that no two prints are the same. Remember the ridges and furrows we mentioned above? The raised and recessed parts of the fingerprint? Scientists carefully look at each print's details (the shape's position, how many ridges there are, the size of the furrows) to uniquely link someone to that print. One must pay attention to more than just the print pattern when examining fingerprints, although this is an easy identifier. ![]() But what if your neighbor or a family member has the same shaped patterns on the same fingers? Can scientists tell your prints and their prints apart? Well, good news, you won’t be getting charged with any of your neighbor’s crimes even if they have seemingly “identical” prints because, in reality, even if they look identical, they aren’t identical at all! Maybe you have mostly whorl prints-some double loop, some plain- and a few loop-shaped prints- mainly radial. The most common of these prints are loops which make up about 60% of the population, whorls make up about 35%, and the least common, arches, which make up about 5%. What pattern do these ridges and furrows create? Maybe whirlpools? Hills? Teardrops? Or perhaps you see all three. If you look closely, you can see the outlines of your prints' ridges (raised lines) and furrows (recessed lines). Some of us have brown hair, blonde hair, maybe we have freckles, no freckles, green eyes, or blue eyes we’re all unique in our own way- including our fingerprints. The human population varies in how we all look our outside defining characteristics. The Three Different Types of Fingerprints ![]()
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