Why Do Identical Twins Have Different Fingerprints?
Identical twins don’t have identical fingerprints because of how fingerprints form. The whorls and ridges form during compressions of the skin on a foetus’s fingers, in a similar way to land masses buckling to form ridges under compression. Not everything is alike about identical foetuses in the womb; their positions, the lengths of their umbilical …
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