Option 11: List The Three Principles Of Fingerprints

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Option 11: List the three principles of fingerprints
A fingerprint is an individual characteristic. no two people have been found. with the exact same fingerprint pattern. A fingerprint pattern will remain unchanged for the life of an individual; Fingerprint evidence, is undoubtedly the most reliable and acceptable evidence for individual identification, till date, in the court of law (Tandon, Sircar, Chowdhry, & Popli, 2016).
Individual characteristic, out of the millions of sets of prints that have been taken, no two individuals have been found to have the same fingerprints, not even identical twins

A fingerprint will remain unchanged during an individual's lifetime.
The ridges on the grasping surfaces of hands and on the soles of feet are

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