I may be wrong but I think the answer is Photosynthesis.
Walter Sutton discovered that chromosomes are the basis of heredity and this explained the segregation of alleles in Mendel's law of segregation. Basically alleles and chromosomes in Mendel's explanation are the same thing.
Fragmentation, also known as splitting, as a method of reproduction is seen in many organisms such as filamentous cyanobacteria, molds, lichens, many plants, and animals such as sponges, acoel flatworms, some annelid worms and sea stars.
It would eventually go extinct. If you put a shark in a fresh water pond and it can't adapt to fresh water it will die.
