Fingerprints is a pattern of ridges on the skin of our toes and finger. It's not the same in all human being including parents and its offspring even in identical and unidentical twins no human being on earth have same fingerprints
Fingerprints is an example of dis-continuous variation
Dis-continuous variation are feature of the body that are not subjected to changes from birth till death. A good examples of discontinuous variation includes blood group, genotype, ability to roll the tongue all these falls in the same categories with fingerprint
Types of fingerprints
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Uses of fingerprints
Finger has directly and indirectly improve technology, helps to detect crime, and many more
.it aid easy efficiency of phones, PC and tablet
Fingerprints can be used to open phones. What you need to do is to register your finger print on the phone so that you can be able to open and operate it via your fingerprints however no body on plant earth can open that phone
.detection of crime
Since no 2 individual have same fingerprints, it's easy to identity criminals or trouble causer via their fingerprints
Enhances technology
There are several doors, locks, and keys that can only be open with fingerprints which has makes the application of fingerprints to technology grow in the process it reduce crime rate
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