title: Mutation (disambiguation)
text: # Mutation (disambiguation)
  
  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
  