Question

List the three principles of fingerprints and briefly describe them.

Answer 1

Fingerprints are unique patterns that are found on the fingertips. The are used for identification of a person. The three principles of fingerprints are :

1. Individual characteristic : Fingerprints have individual characteristic as no two fingers would have the same pattern of ridges or prints.

2. Remain unchanged : the fingerprint of a finger does not change throughout the lifetime of a person.

3. Unique patterns : they have general ridge patterns making it systematically possible to classify them.