answer: the parent can be a single organism
explanation:
it only takes one "parent" single celled organism to asexually reproduce through binary fission
it only takes one "parent" multi celled organism to asexually reproduce through fragmentation or budding
DNA, nucleosome, coils, supercoils, chromosome.
New disease that affects the younger of a population, shortage of availability of food, new competitor for food, new predator of jaguars (though there arent many of those)
There are four haploid cells after meiosis and cytokinesis. There are two diploid cells after mitosis and cytokinesis. It's easy to get confused. :D