| Author | Message | ||
     Kasey Wertheim |
Kathy, The answer to your first question regarding thumb prints is yes, they can, and many times are, different. Each finger develops individually, and therefore is subject to slightly different environmental factors. This is what accounts for no two fingerprints developing exactly the same, and sometimes these different factors are so great that the pattern may be affected. In general, your hands start from a mirror-image formation, and proceed away from that model. How far away your fingerprint patterns become depends on a host of factors, which many times can affect the pattern on a finger of one hand and not the other. One other comment, since you posted your question in the AFIS section: loops are further broken down in to left slope and right slope (for AFIS), with left slopes being associated with the left hand and right slopes being associated with the right hand. It is very rare that a finger on the left hand would contain a right slope loop, with the possible exeption of the index fingers. They are the most likely to contain a "radial" pattern that goes against the norm. | ||
| Kathy McCormack |
Does same finger on both hands have a similiar fingerprint(Ex. Loop, whorl)? | ||
| Kathy McCormack |
Could a person's left thumb print be a differet pattern (example loop and whorl)from his or her right thumb? |
