Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Oli's Science Homework


This is my Blog about forensic science!!!!!!


Week one is all about fingerprints


fingerprints are impressions of the friction ridges of the finger. A friction ridge is a raised part of the epidermis on the palm or the fingers and toes.



Hope the picture works.


The FBI manages a fingerprint identifacation system and database called IAFIS, which holds fingerprints of over fifty-one million criminal record subjects.