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[[File:DM.jpg|thumb|A Kaled mutant attacks a soldier. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')]] | [[File:DM.jpg|thumb|A Kaled mutant attacks a soldier. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')]] | ||
Dalek mutants had a fundamental [[DNA]] type of 467-989. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]'') They were [[cephalopod]]s, being large brained creatures with [[tentacle]]s, though young mutants were globular, soft and shapeless with tendrils. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'') The [[Eleventh Doctor]] claimed that "there [wasn't] a bone in [a Dalek's] body", ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'') although one dead Dalek mutant's carcass, found by [[Steven Taylor]] on the planet [[Shade (planet)|Shade]] did contain some "bone" as well as "gristle" within the rotting "bladder" of the mutant's body. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Across the Darkened City (audio story)|Across the Darkened City]]'') According to [[Bernice Summerfield]], Dalek mutants were the "same species" as their [[Kaled]] ancestors. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lights of Skaro (audio story)|The Lights of Skaro]]'') | Dalek mutants had a fundamental [[DNA]] type of 467-989. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]'') They were [[cephalopod]]s, being large brained creatures with [[tentacle]]s, though young mutants were globular, soft and shapeless with tendrils. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'') The [[Eleventh Doctor]] claimed that "there [wasn't] a [[bone]] in [a Dalek's] body", ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'') although one dead Dalek mutant's carcass, found by [[Steven Taylor]] on the planet [[Shade (planet)|Shade]] did contain some "bone" as well as "gristle" within the rotting "bladder" of the mutant's body. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Across the Darkened City (audio story)|Across the Darkened City]]'') According to [[Bernice Summerfield]], Dalek mutants were the "same species" as their [[Kaled]] ancestors. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lights of Skaro (audio story)|The Lights of Skaro]]'') | ||
Daleks mutants varied in appearance as all their young mutated differently, with varying numbers of limbs and other body parts. Some resembled squids, spiders, and others creatures "so grotesque it seemed heresy to give them a name at all". Extraneous body parts were hacked off from young mutants when first installed into their travel machines. The [[Metaltron]] was born with two good eyes, but only one was deemed necessary and the other was poked out with a spike. The "surplus material" would be taken to incubation vats and used in the creation of more Dalek embryos. ([[PROSE]]: [[Dalek (novelisation)|''Dalek'']]) | Daleks mutants varied in appearance as all their young mutated differently, with varying numbers of limbs and other body parts. Some resembled squids, spiders, and others creatures "so grotesque it seemed heresy to give them a name at all". Extraneous body parts were hacked off from young mutants when first installed into their travel machines. The [[Metaltron]] was born with two good eyes, but only one was deemed necessary and the other was poked out with a spike. The "surplus material" would be taken to incubation vats and used in the creation of more Dalek embryos. ([[PROSE]]: [[Dalek (novelisation)|''Dalek'']]) | ||
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Sources vary as to how long Daleks could outside their casings. According to one account, after a while their lungs would collapse, their hearts would fail, and their brains could liquefy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[In Remembrance (audio story)|In Remembrance]]'') | Sources vary as to how long Daleks could outside their casings. According to one account, after a while their lungs would collapse, their hearts would fail, and their brains could liquefy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[In Remembrance (audio story)|In Remembrance]]'') | ||
As observed when a Dalek stationed on [[Arkheon]] was [[execute]]d by two of [[Dalek X]]'s [[Elite Guard Dalek]]s, the Dalek mutant within was fried alive, while its casing was left blackened but otherwise intact and able to be recycled, as Dalek X ordered. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)|Prisoner of the Daleks]]'') | |||
The mutants on occasion demonstrated an accelerated healing ability in response to localised wounds. [[Dalek (Jubilee)|One Dalek mutant]] in particular, while being tortured by Commander [[Farrow]], began to repair its damaged body, its flesh growing over Farrow's hand and burning it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jubilee (audio story)|Jubilee]]'') On one occasion, the Kaled mutant of [["Reconnaissance Dalek"|a recon scout]] survived the destruction of its casing and being trisected, going into hibernation with the pieces being separated across [[Earth]] for over a thousand years. After one piece was awakened via [[ultraviolet]] light, the mutant was able to use a [[spatial shift]] to pull the pieces back together and reform itself. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resolution (TV story)|Resolution]]'') | The mutants on occasion demonstrated an accelerated healing ability in response to localised wounds. [[Dalek (Jubilee)|One Dalek mutant]] in particular, while being tortured by Commander [[Farrow]], began to repair its damaged body, its flesh growing over Farrow's hand and burning it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jubilee (audio story)|Jubilee]]'') On one occasion, the Kaled mutant of [["Reconnaissance Dalek"|a recon scout]] survived the destruction of its casing and being trisected, going into hibernation with the pieces being separated across [[Earth]] for over a thousand years. After one piece was awakened via [[ultraviolet]] light, the mutant was able to use a [[spatial shift]] to pull the pieces back together and reform itself. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resolution (TV story)|Resolution]]'') | ||
