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A mutation is a change in the sequence of an organism's genetic material.

Mutation or mutate may also refer to:

Film, television, and literature

• Mutation (novel), a 1990 medical thriller by Robin Cook
• Savage Land Mutates, a group of mutants in Marvel Comics
• Human Mutation, a peer-reviewed medical journal of human genetics
• The Mutations, a 1974 British horror film, also released as The Freakmaker
• The Mutation (novel), a book in the Animorphs series, by K.A. Applegate
• “Mutations”, an episode of The Good Doctor

Music

• Mutation, the process of changing hexachords in medieval music theory
• Mutation (organ stop), a type of organ stop that does not sound at unison or octave pitch
• Mutations (Beck album), 1998
• Mutations (Fight album), 1994
• Mutations (Vijay Iyer album), 2014
• Mutations EP, 1992 EP by Orbital
• Mutate (album), 1993 album by Battery
• "Mutations", a song by Salt the Wound from their 2009 album, Ares
• Mutation, a 2005 album by Donna Williams

Sciences

• Mutation (genetic algorithm), an operator in a genetic algorithm of computing
• Mutation (algebra), an operation on algebras producing an algebra with a modified multiplication operation
• Mutation (knot theory), an operation on a knot that creates different knots
• Mutation (Jordan algebra), an operation on Jordan algebras that creates different Jordan algebras
• Mutation of a seed, in the theory of cluster algebras
• Apophony, in linguistics, a change in a sound in a word
• Consonant mutation, in linguistics, a change in a consonant sound
• Affection (linguistics) or vowel mutation, the change in the quality of a vowel under the influence of the following vowel in Celtic languages

Other

• Voice change, the change in human voice during puberty
• Mutation, division and transfer of land ownership in India; see Village accountant

See also

• Mutant (disambiguation)
• Transmutation (disambiguation)

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