True or False?? What do you think??!?

Question

Identical twins have identical fingerprints. Answer to be revealed later so check back to see if you are right! =)

The answer is false! Most of you were correct. It is the only thing about identical twins that is different. Source = Never Shower in a Thunderstorm by Anahad O'Connor (NY Times columnist)

Answer 1

false

Answer 2

yes--identical twins have fingerprints that can be readily distinguished on close examination. However, the prints do have striking similarities. In fact, before the arrival of modern genetic testing, similarity of fingerprints was often used to determine whether twins were identical or fraternal. (Identical twins, you'll recall, are genetic duplicates who develop from a single egg. Fraternal twins develop from separate eggs and are no more closely related than ordinary siblings, except that they spend nine months sharing an extremely small bedroom.)

Twin fingerprints are much beloved by scientists, who see them as a classic arena for the old nature-versus-nurture debate: What made you what you are today, your genes or your environment? Twin fingerprints clearly show that it's a little of both. If you compare palm prints and fingerprints of the Dionne quintuplets (born in 1934, they were the first quints of which all five survived), you find that the broad-brush pattern of lines, whorls, loops, etc., as well as what researchers call "ridge count," were quite similar for the whole crew. Nonetheless each kid had unique prints due to differences in detail. "There is as yet no evidence that the arrangement of the minutiae (ending ridges, bifurcating ridges, etc.) is in any way genetically influenced," writes fingerprint expert James Cowger. Presumably these minor but crucial differences arise from random local events during fetal development, the same kind of thing that makes each snowflake unique.

Answer 3

This is false, no 2 individual's identical twin's or not have the same fingerprints as another! Proven Fact! There are very little way's to change you own finger prints from the ones you have....

Answer 4

I think it's false. Everyone has their own unique set of fingerprints-even twins.Often, identical twins will have a similar arrangement of patterns, but never the same minute details.

Answer 5

False

Answer 6

False this was stated in discover magazine a while back. Two identical twins cannot have identical fingerprints.

Answer 7

FALSE ! Every set of fingerprints is unique, even though
they are identical twins !

Hugs,

Answer 8

Its true because one time there was a twin who committed a crime because the fingerprints were left behind but the police didn't know which twin because the fingerprints were identical, and the twins wouldn't say which one of them committed the crime.

Answer 9

I'd say it's false. You always hear that fingerprints are unique to every individual, but you never hear of there being any exceptions to this rule.

Answer 10

False!

Answer 11

False.