An act of genocide is best described as
a. the destruction of life on a massive scale
b. mass murder motivated by religious differences
c. the deliberate and systematic extermination of a cultural group
d. the accidental destruction of a national, racial, or political group

Genocide is a term first used by Raphael Lemkin in 1944, it comes from the greek word yevok and the latin sufix -caedo, it is used to describe the systematic destruction of a whole or a part of a specific racial, cultural, ethnic, or religious group, this means that the best answer would be:

c. the deliberate and systematic extermination of a cultural group

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