How does our body know the pattern to regenerate a finger print and how much damage has to be done to disturb the pattern regeneration?

Question

I got a decent cut in my finger the other day. By today it has healed itself completely and the pattern looks undistrurbed. My question is, how does our body know the pattern to regenerate and how much damage has to be done to disturb the pattern regeneration?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I touched a hot frying pan when i was a kid. It was one of those “don’t touch, it’s hot” , so of course I had to ttouch it. It didn’t seem bad or even large (apple seed sized). 30+ years later and where the blister was I don’t have any lines or whorls. Just little bumps.