Because the environment in the womb also has an effect, even the prints of identical twins are slightly different. While it's possible that two people could be found who had identical fingerprints, the chances of this happening are so small as to be virtually negligible. In a criminal case...
Mainland showed me how the researchers were able to double-check these findings at his lab, in cell culture. First, they cloned the genes for the two suspect receptors and their more and less sensitive variants. They inserted those DNA snippets into host cells, which were then tricked into m...
[1].Amongallthebiometrictechnologies,fin- gerprintsaretheoldestandwidelyusedinpersonalverification.Althoughnotscientificallyestablished,finger- printsarebelievedtobeuniqueacrossindividuals,andacrossfingersofthesameindividual.Evenidentical twinshavingsimilarDNA,arebelievedtohavedifferentfingerprints. ...
waskidnappedoffthestreetsofHoustononherwaytoschoolinOctober2001andrapedin thebackseatofacar. Twomenwerearrested.Policesayoneofthemencommittedtherape,whiletheotherdrovethecar.DNA wasrecoveredatthecrimescene. Buttherewasaproblem:Thetwomenareidenticaltwins,sothatmeanstheyhavethesameDNA.Sowhat goodistheDNA...