Why is it die Genetik?

Genetik ends in -ik, and almost all nouns ending in -ik are feminine: in a German dictionary, 93% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -ik
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Biology: Science and the teaching of inheritance

[1] Biologie: Die Wissenschaft und die Lehre von der Vererbung

Examples

[1] "Mendel in 1865 based on the intellectual division of the hereditary system into individual genes, the science of genetics"

[1] "Mit der gedanklichen Aufteilung des Erbguts in einzelne Gene begründete Mendel 1865 die Wissenschaft der Genetik."

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Genetik —
Genitiv der Genetik —
Dativ der Genetik —
Akkusativ die Genetik —

Pronunciation

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