Aug 17, 2021
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Are the fingerprints of identical twins identical?
Your genetic makeup partly determines the whorls and ridges on your fingerprints.
Identical (monozygotic) twins come from a single embryo that divides early in development. They share almost (but not 100% due to mutations in utero) the same genetic information.
However, despite having almost identical DNA, monozygotic twins don’t have identical fingerprints.
