I've heard people say it's because fingerprints are formed quite late on in their development, but surely if their dna is the same it shouldn't make any difference?
2006-07-27 11:06:41 · 21 answers · asked by Sophph 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Finger Prints are not caused by DNA. The patterns and ridges that are formed that we come to know as finger prints are formed by the pressure of the fluids within womb. Each twin will experience the pressures diffirently and resultingly will not have identical finger prints.
It is theorized that no two people have the dame print patterns. It is a scientific theory still at this point becaue to disprove it would require finding indential prints. And that is yet to happen.
2006-07-27 11:17:10 · answer #1 · answered by coldfirene 2 · 9⤊ 1⤋
I dispute the other answers. I am an identical twin (male) and I have been told we have the same DNA. I think fingerprints is the one thing where identical twins can differ. Will be interested in your other answers. My brother and I have received quite a lot of money from university students who are researching identical twins. I think some of the results have been surprising. Identical twins can be pretty freaky!
2016-03-27 02:17:46 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some actually do have the same fingerprints. But its because they have a small chance of both twins developing exactly the same with no mistakes. A wrong fingerprint is a mistake.
2006-07-27 11:11:58 · answer #3 · answered by Darth Futuza 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because fingerprints form when the baby is developing, no two babies (even if they are identical twins) develops and grows exactly the same way.
2006-07-27 12:47:27 · answer #4 · answered by cristy7_pr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe they are the same. I have recently heard of a murderer who got off with it as he was an identical twin. They had dna evidence and fingerprints, but they couln't prove which of the identical twins did it.
I saw it on FBI Files...
2006-07-27 11:11:38 · answer #5 · answered by kaz1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every person on earth has a different set of fingerprints. Every individual's DNA is a slight different as well. It's kind of a biological identity of every person. Here's a fact. Every Leopard's spots and every Zebra's stripes differ from eachother.
2006-07-27 11:16:05 · answer #6 · answered by Cecile K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have different finger prints. Fingerprints have nothing to do with dna. Your finger prints are nothing like either of your parents and you share some dna with each of them. Like you said fingerprints develop later in fetal development.
2006-07-27 11:11:15 · answer #7 · answered by Jake W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't believe some people think that twins have the same fingerprints. If they do, then it isn't to do with them being twins - just a scary freaky turn of events.
2006-07-27 11:45:29 · answer #8 · answered by org4zm_1z_d4m4g3_1nc 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Twins looks in terms of hair, eye colour, skin tone etc is Genetic, so the gentic markers are the same, making them look identical.
Fingerprints are not genetic. The grooves are impressed due to the minute things a foetus does. Anything the foetus touches can effect how the grooves lie.
2006-07-27 12:57:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No two persons have similar pattern of finger prints. This is nature's rule. Even twins of a same womb, will not have similar finger prints. This peculiarity is highly advantageous to criminal investigators. The same nature is also existing in the DNA finger printings. This is due to infinate nature of the probability.
2006-07-27 18:57:03 · answer #10 · answered by K.J. Jeyabaskaran K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋