Falls are the most common cause of traumatic brain injury, and falling poses an especially serious risk for older adults. When a senior sustains a traumatic brain injury in a fall, direct effects of the injury may result in long-term cognitive changes, reduced ability to function and changes in emotional health.
Asexual reproduction is by means of spores produced in sporangia borne on the hyphae. Zygomycota get their name from the production of thick-walled sexual structures called zygosporangia, which can remain dormant for long periods.
Spores are haploid reproductive cells. Remember, a sporophyte is a diploid organism, so in order to produce haploid cells with half the number of chromosomes, meiosis must occur. Meiosis is a type of cell division that cuts the number of chromosomes in a cell in half. In sporophytes, it occurs in structures called sporangia (sporangium is singular). Once spores are produced in a sporangium, they are often released into the air. A single haploid spore will undergo mitosis, or cell division without a reduction in chromosome number, to become a multicellular haploid gametophyte.