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<title>Other Notation : Mutation</title>
<h1>Mutation</h1>
A mutation is a random change of an <a href="help.Instruction.html">instruction</a> from the <a href="help.Genome.html">genome</a> of an <a href="help.Organism.html">organism</a>. There are three main times that mutations can occur; point mutations will happen randomly through time, with and equal probability at every site, copy mutations occur when a site is actively being copied, and divide mutations occur when an organim is splitting off an offspring.