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- Your fingerprint is the pattern that the grooves in your skin make at
the tips of your fingers. Fingerprints are very useful for identifying
people since no two people in the entire world have the same fingerprint
(that's a lot of different patterns!). You can easily examine your own
fingerprint.
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- Dip your finger into the ink.
- Press your finger onto a piece of paper.
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- You can compare your fingerprints from different fingers. You can also
compare your fingerprints to those of your friends. Police investigations
often make use of fingerprinting. Police officers can compare fingerprints
left at the scene of a crime with the fingerprints of a suspect to see who
was at the place where the crime happened.
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Last updated on 14 August 1998.