1. We are as unique as our fingerprints!
Power point by Suzanne Smith 2013

2. When do you get your fingerprints?
6 months before you are born

3. Which animal has fingerprints that are almost exactly like a human’s fingerprint?

4. What makes our fingerprint stay on surfaces?
The nature oils and salts from our sweat glands

5. What is the name for the study of fingerprints?
Dactylscopy –
dactylos = finger in Greek
skopein = to examine

6. What is the purpose of the ridges on our fingers?
Help us grasp objects – provides friction so things don’t slip through our fingers
Helps our sense of touch

7. What is the most common type of fingerprint?
loop

8. Other patterns
Whorl

9. Double loop whorl

10. tented arch