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The whorls and ridges that make up a footprint develop uniquely in each person and are not genetically determined.

Yes, they are. The whorls and ridges that make up a footprint develop uniquely in each person and are not genetically determined. There are a few famous cases in which criminals have been caught by using toeprints, such as at a Scottish bakery in 1852 when a safe-cracker was identified by the footprints he left in flour. Toeprints were even suggested as biometric data to be included in the now-abandoned UK identity card scheme. Content courtesy BBC Knowledge Magazine ET logo

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