Fingerprints Research Paper

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Everyone has their own fingerprint that is special to their DNA. Fingerprints can be used to unlock phones, so solve crime scenes and many other things. The purpose of this science fair paper leads to one question, can your fingerprint show your heritage? Fingerprints are based on the person's skin pattern and ridges which are also known as dermatoglyphs. Those ridges are found on feet, palms, and especially the top half of fingers. These dermatoglyphs develop well before birth and stay the exact same throughout people's lives. Dermatoglyphs are fully developed for the baby's body in the sixth month of pregnancy. These dermatoglyphs are not fully based off DNA, part of it is the condition of the womb for the baby in pregnancy. There are

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