Point mutations usually involve a change is just a single nucleotide pair. The first kind is called a base substitution. As its name implies, a base is replaced by an incorrect base. The second kind is actually two kinds: insertions and deletions (the addition or subtraction of nucleotide pairs).
Minnesota Historical Society resources about the history and culture of Minnesotaâs Hmong people. The Hmong â a distinct ethnic group with ancient roots in Chinaâbegan coming to Minnesota in 1975 as refugees from the destructive wars that had ravaged their homelands in Laos. Today, there are more than 66,000 Hmong in Minnesota, and the Twin Cities metro is home to the largest concentration of Hmong in America. For decades, the Hmong have made a profound impact on their adopted home of Minnesota.
The Hmong/Mong is an indigenous people in Asia. They are also one of the sub-groups of the Miao ethnicity in China. Thousands of economic and political refugees have resettled in Western countries in two separate waves. The first wave resettled in the late 1970s, mostly in the United States, after the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao takeovers of the pro-US governments in South Vietnam and Laos respectively. Since 1949, Miao has been official recognized as one of the 55 official minority groups b