In the study of slimes, one really must remember: To be slime is an evolutionary strategy, not a lone innovation. There is no ur-slime, unless one draws back to a point on some unified tree that is beyond meaningless. So: consider the sheer diversity of form among the formless. The miniaturized viral plague may survive splitting, the dungeon-cleaning resident decomposer will survive as long as it has had a meal recently, and their radiation-eating relatives are made to reintegrate- but be more discerning. Chordate slimes will have trouble at best, and those brought together by fully magical means- well, one should be wary of energy release when cleaving magical bonds.
