The word sophomoric, an adjective dating from 1813, is used to refer to and describe something or someone that is conceited, overconfident, poorly informed and immature, as characterized by a stereotypical high school sophomore. The phrase can be derisive, but is also used to refer to a style or vein of comedic act.
Phenotype: An appearance or characteristic of an individual, which results from the interaction of the person's genetic makeup and his or her environment. By contrast, the genotype is merely the genetic constitution (genome) of an individual.
The phenotype of an organism is the class to which that organism belongs as determined by the description of the physical and behavioral characteristics of the organism, for example its size and shape, its metabolic activities and its pattern of movement.he concepts of phenotype and genotype also demand the distinction between types and tokens. As the words âgenotypeâ and âphenotypeâ suggest, these are types, sets of which any given organism and its genome are members, sets defined by their physical description.