Mutation

From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

See also mutation (disambiguation).

"Mutant" redirects here. See also mutant (disambiguation).

Mutation is a change outside that of normal evolution; be it forced or effected by outside sources to bring a change which would not normally have occurred in the time frame or along a particular path.

[edit] Examples

The Daleks were created by Davros mutating the Kaled race by subjecting them (or their cells) to a mutagenic process forcing them to evolve with the added effect of radiation. (DW: The Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks) The use of nuclear and chemical-biological weapons during the war also mutated the animal life, many species of which lived in the Lake of Mutations. (DW: The Daleks)

The Refusians' invisibility was a result of a mutation caused by solar flares on their planet Refusis II. (DW: The Ark)

The spiders of Metebelis III mutated, becoming highly intelligent with great psycho-kinetic / telepathic powers as a result of mutation from the Metebelis or 'blue' crystal. (DW: Planet of the Spiders)

The Primords came into existence during an attempt to penetrate the Earth's crust when humans came into physical contact with Stahlman's Ooze mutating them into the animalistic Primords which favoured the heat like that of the location of the Stahlman's Ooze. (DW: Inferno)

Although the physical changes of the Solonians were believed by the Humans of the Earth Empire to be harmful mutations, these were actually part of the species' natural life cycle. (DW: The Mutants)

[edit] Reasons for Mutation

Some reasons for mutation are similar to that of evolution; the adaption to a situation, area or time however it is a forced and 'unnatural' change, outside that of what of would have occured during 'normal' evolution.