what is a finger print?
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try reading the following\n\nhttp://computer.howstuffworks.com/fingerprint-scanner.htm/printable
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a zebra's pattern differs the same way our fingerprnts does.  you can tell "who's who" in the zebra world by their stripes.
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A fingerprint would increase the absorbance of the compound as detected by the instrument. This is because the grease from the print will reflect additional light, such that it does not reach the detector, thereby increasing absorbance.
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it is genetic.  during embryonic stages the skin pigments kinda move around and the patterns are all different, just like dogs and cats.  it is usually on multiple genes and varies a bit.  our fingerprints do a similar thing.  in the womb we move around and actually make our fingerprints smear to their current way.
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I sell the hardware and software for that. it is a usb finger scanner with the fingerprint recognition software. if you wish you can contact me at yushdz@gmail.com
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A very good question from your nephew\nNature provides us with the natural form of clones:\nidentical twins share the same genetic makeup and even\ndeveloped in the same uterus. Nevertheless, their\nfingerprints are not identical, though similar. The\nformation of fingerprints is partly the result of a\nstochastic process.\nThe ultimate shape of fingerprints are believed to be influenced by environmental factors during pregnancy, like nutrition, blood pressure, position in the womb and the growth rate of the fingers at the end of the first trimester. \n\n\nSo identical twins and clones are similar and they have similar but not identical finger prints.
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i;m an older person.and i have never heard of finger print drug test;;;they have a test with a piece of hair;but that useually for pot............
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Its a fingerprint reader. Since no two people in the world have same thumb prints and wrinkles do not wear off according to age or over time, thumbprinting is taken as one of the most safe security systems. Your thumbprint is stored in a machine. and when you impress ur thimb on the reader it goes through the databse and finds the identity match. These are used in the CIA and FBI to identify criminals too. Yes, these are also used in ATM machines. However, the better and coslier technology is retina scanning where your eye is scanned.\n(I gave u such a long and detailed answer, plzz rate as best answer)
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Fingerprinting has come a long way today, the systems are automated through computers linked straight to data bases for law enforcement. In most cases if the agency is automated it will check your info against what is on file, this is easily done and will tell the last time you were printed. If it is old, they may re-print you. For no automated agencies they will generally re-print each time.
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5% according to MSN Encarta\nhttp://encarta.msn.com/media_461551519/Types_of_Fingerprints.html
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They'll usually hire an outside agency to do it.  Can be a company that specializes in that, some security companies do it, local police department or sheriff's office, state Bureau of Investigations office.  I think there's some web sites as well, you pay a fee and can run checks on people, but I don't think they'd have access to fingerprint information.  \n\nAs far as just criminal histories, that's public information.  Most states/counties have web sites you can look up individual's traffic citations, arrests, or civil claims.  Most you can look right on line, others you have to mail in a request.
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If you want a secure one, dont get one that you sit your whole finger on at the same time, try to get one that you "swipe."  If you get one that your whole finger rests on, it is very easy to bypass it with a gelatin copy, made by using the fingerprint pad.
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It means you bumped your finger.
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Only identical twins have similar fingerprints.\n\nOtherwise all of us have different fingerprints.
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As would be expected fingerprints have been around as long as man has, and thus the first human to look at their hands would have discovered fingerprints. I assume that in this question you are asking who realised that they could be used as a method of identification. This has been known for thousands of years, in fact in early civilisation the distinctive fingerprint of a person could be found on pottery created by that person as way of a hall mark.\nNehemiah Graw (1641-1712) was one of the first people to study the distinct ridges of the fingerprints, and the science of their study developed through such people as Marcello Malpighi and Thomas Bedwick. The first person to realise that fingerprints were so distinctive they could be used fairly accuratly as a means of identification was Sir William Herschel (1833-1917), but it was Dr Juan Vucetich who started up the worlds first fingerprint buereu in argentina, and this became the first country in 1896 to abolish athropometry as a means of identification, in favour of fingerprints.
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the most logical answer:\n10 minus the number of finger you're not holding up!
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yes you have the proof on your finger