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 die
Meaning
[1] Biology: Science and the teaching of inheritance
[1] Biologie: Die Wissenschaft und die Lehre von der VererbungExamples
[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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