In two separate boating incidents, one as a teenager on the Mississippi River and one on the Great Lakes, President Lincoln got his boats stuck in shallow waters, known as shoals.. These two experiences inspired Lincoln to invent a solution to help him navigate his boat through shallow waters.
Algae are simple plants. The biggest similarity with more  'regular' lants is that they both contain chlorophyll    Green algae and plants are sister taxon, that is, tâ¦hey share a  common ancestor.    For this reason, they both have double membrane bound plastids that  contain chlorophyll a and b.
Many fungi are superficially plant-like organisms. They grow visible structures that resemble plants or plant parts. On a microscopic level, plants and fungi both have cell walls, a feature that metazoan (animal) cells lack.The study of cladistics, however, results in a phylogeny tree in which fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants.In other words, animals have a more recent common ancestor with fungi than with plants, and the mushrooms in your salad are more closely related to you than to the lettuce.slide 2 of 5.any fungi are superficially plant-like organisms. They grow visible structures that resemble plants or plant parts. On a microscopic level, plants and fungi both have cell walls, a feature that metazoan (animal) cells lack.