Which one of the following terms characterizes the interaction between herpes simplex virus and a human?

Correct answers: (b) Parasitism or (d) Endoparasitism

Explanation

The herpes simplex virus lives and multiplies inside human cells, using the cell's machinery and harming it, so the relation is parasitism.

Since the virus lives inside the host, it is more exactly endoparasitism, a kind of parasitism; BPSC's key gives (d).

BPSC's key gives (d) Endoparasitism; the book prefers (b) Parasitism. Both are accepted here.