https://padlet.com/rebecca_thorne/g2h7qa6qfpsx en-us 2016-11-22 07:13:45 UTC 2021-10-10 10:57:27 UTC hello@padlet.com rebecca_thorne https://padlet.com/rebecca_thorne/g2h7qa6qfpsx/wish/139266090 2016-11-22 07:15:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rebecca_thorne/g2h7qa6qfpsx/wish/139266090 rebecca_thorne https://padlet.com/rebecca_thorne/g2h7qa6qfpsx/wish/139266154 2016-11-22 07:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rebecca_thorne/g2h7qa6qfpsx/wish/139266154 rebecca_thorne https://padlet.com/rebecca_thorne/g2h7qa6qfpsx/wish/139266206  You’ve heard that police use fingerprints to solve crimes. Here’s why: fingerprints are one of the best and easiest ways to identify a person. Fingers have slightly raised lines that form patterns, and every finger has its own unique pattern. Natural oils from the skin are left behind when a person touches something, leaving a fingerprint pattern. Forensic (detective) scientists study fingerprint patterns to match them to a particular person. Often, scientists have only part of a fingerprint to study. Look at the print shown on the left. That’s a “latent” or unknown print that detectives found.If you were a forensic scientist working in a lab, you would use a latent print to try to find a match among thousands of “known” prints in the police’s computer files. How do scientists – with the help of computers -- search for matches? They look for basic types of patterns in the fingerprint lines. ]]> 2016-11-22 07:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rebecca_thorne/g2h7qa6qfpsx/wish/139266206 rebecca_thorne https://padlet.com/rebecca_thorne/g2h7qa6qfpsx/wish/139267561 2016-11-22 07:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rebecca_thorne/g2h7qa6qfpsx/wish/139267561 rebecca_thorne https://padlet.com/rebecca_thorne/g2h7qa6qfpsx/wish/139267760 2016-11-22 07:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rebecca_thorne/g2h7qa6qfpsx/wish/139267760