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The entire pattern grows larger as the area of skin becomes larger. However, the spatial relationship of the ridge detail remains the same.

I work for a fingerprint unit at a law enforcement agency. We all have compared numerous juvenile arrest fingerprint cards to adult fingerprint cards without a problem. An infant footprint can also be identified to an adult footprint if both prints are of sufficient quality to allow a comparison.

Think of it as making an enlargement of a photograph. A 4x6 contains the same information in the same relationship to everything else as a 5x7 of the same image. Only the size of the image has changed.

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