Hi there, recently I suffered 1st degree burns all over the palms of my hands (don't ask), obviously lost all of the top skin (even down to the bone in a couple of spots).
Perhaps my case isn't as bad as it coul dhave been but if you really badly burned your hands, would the fingerprints that grew back be the same as your old ones?
2007-09-06 01:37:11 · 11 answers · asked by David 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Reconstrution of the fingerprints depends on the degree of burns.They can reconstruct the same if not too severe injury such as the first degree burns. If it is 3rd degree burns, the basal lamina is severely affected, thus the fingerprints are hard to reconstruct as same as previous one, probably skin graft is required.
If there is a deep cut on the finger, scar will also form. The fingerprints are altered somewhat. DNA does not define the overall fingerprints (only the general shape is genetically defined but the ridges aren't). The ridges are created during feotal live and therefore are affected by the environment of placenta. So you may find that the monozygotic identical twins have different figerprints as well.
2007-09-06 21:05:30 · answer #1 · answered by Jason F. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it does take a lot for you fingerprints to go totally and as far as i know when the skin grows back it is the same. I lost part of the end of my middle finger and the skin has grown back around the rest of the finger and looks the same to me.
Hope you get better soon though mate :0)
2007-09-06 01:44:55 · answer #2 · answered by corrinab2705 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fingerprints *do* grow back the same as they had been before - though this is actually nothing to do with your DNA.
In the case of severe injuries, scarring might obscure the original prints.
In fact, it is, as yet, not properly understood how fingerprints form.
2007-09-06 01:50:57 · answer #3 · answered by gribbling 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fingerprints are in your DNA. An injury can give a scar across your finger disrupting your fingerprint, but it can't change your DNA.
2007-09-06 08:29:52 · answer #4 · answered by Capt. Kiith-Sa Soban 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will be the same however deep areas will provide permenant scaring and will act as a new identifier on your finger prints. you will have more identifying features on your prints than other people.
2007-09-06 01:47:59 · answer #5 · answered by Emma B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes its damned near impossible to get rid of them. Ask any hitman
2007-09-06 01:52:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they would be - fingerprints are all part of your DNA
2007-09-06 01:45:16 · answer #7 · answered by bubu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
off course it will growth again,they will be the same if the injure is not so bad.
2007-09-06 01:44:57 · answer #8 · answered by catabotis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you lose your fingertips, yes.
2007-09-06 01:47:08 · answer #9 · answered by Clare 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no ,you will have scarring,but it won,t change your dna mate.
2007-09-06 01:45:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋