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[Spider-Man] Are Peter Parker’s kids mutants?

My wife grew up reading the Spider-Girl comics and we have had this discussion since we met. May and Ben Parker, Peter Parker’s kids, are born with his powers. They didn’t technically get these powers through an event, like Peter, but if he hadn’t been bitten his children wouldn’t have necessarily had the powers. Are they considered mutants (like the X-Men) because they were born with them? Or would they be grouped with characters who were born human and later gifted their powers?
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In the comics, when someone is called a "mutant," it specifically means that they have the X-Gene. 

Spider-Man is a *mutate*, someone whose DNA was altered away from baseline human, but he does *not* have the X-Gene, and neither would his children.

The X-Gene is kind of a big deal, because it was inserted into the human genetic code by the Celestials, as part of their experiments and general tomfoolery. Parker's powers come from regular human mad science, but mutants come from an intergalactic race of disco giants.