Defense - Defense means building a wall.
Protection is the wall after it is built. The protection system of yaks that
worked for them for millions of years worked against them when man and guns
came. Yaks circle their young when threatened. They were easy targets for the
pioneers. How many other long-standing natural protection systems has man
destroyed? Defense is a dynamic process. PROTECTION AND DEFENSE - Protection
is a static condition designed to prevent injury. Defense is a dynamic
condition to survive after injury and infection. These words and their
meanings are often confused and misunderstood. Trees have protection features:
bark with waxes and suberin, aged wood with low amounts of nutrients and water
(and with biological wood preservatives called extractives), arrangement of
wood cells in a constant crisscross pattern as longitudinal and radial cells
abut. Trees also have defense systems: chemical changes that produce
antimicrobial substances, chemical and anatomical changes that form strong
boundaries. After injury and infection, the still living cells near the wound
respond by beginning to form a great variety of materials that resist inward
spread of pathogens. The new materials may be just as harmful to the tree cells
as they are to the pathogens. Some individual trees of a species respond to
injury and infection rapidly, and the pathogens spread very slowly. It appears
that this ability to respond rapidly is under moderate to strong genetic
control. Some tree species have much stronger protection features than other
species. Consider some of the species of Eucalyptus that have high amounts of
extractives that prevent rapid spread of pathogens. Other tree species have
weak protection features, and these trees usually do not live long.
In other words.
Defense is dynamic, that means it is moving – something is happening.
Protection = static. You have protective gear. You have dynamic move. Static
not move. Building a wall is a defense process. Because you are building and
it is kinetic. After it is built, then it becomes a protection boundary
because after it is built, the wall just stands there, remains there, whatever
word you want to use. So the degree of defense and protection in trees depends
on the amount of stored energy they have. If you have a lot of money you can
have a big insurance policy. You can have a big defense. You can buy things –
defense. If you don’t have much money you don’t have much defense. And if you
have something to protect or save, what are you going to use? Because you have
no defense. Think about it. Use the words correctly. Defense, something is
moving, it’s a dynamic process to maintain survival at the high quality state.
Protection is a static situation. It’s a static feature. Protection is a
feature and defense is a process. So think about these words. They are big
powerful words. Don’t misuse them, please.
Defense is based on stored energy. Defense is an active, dynamic process.
Defense Tactics - When energy is high, defense is high. As energy decreases, pathogen attacks increase.
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