how do fingerprints differ?

Finger prints have fascinated people of centuries, they have been used as a method of identification since ancient times.  

But where do finger prints came from? Is it true that they are all different? If you look closely to a fingerprint , you will notice that it is made up of ridges on skin, theses ridges is not always contineous, they stop, split into two, and even across to each other at times. These individual features that makes different between fingerprint and the next.

Finger prints are formed before birth, during the development of the hands. Fingerprints are not actually formed in the skin, but are caused by the ridges in the flesh underneath the skin, genetics plays some part in ther formation, even identical twins have different fingerprints.

Fingerprints falls into set number of patterns, which allows us to cataloge and perform searches more easily.

photo sources: hswstatistic:e: eu.edu:genovese:fbi.gov