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.
Like the slime molds, lichens are a hybrid; a symbiotic relationship between an algae and a fungus. There is a terrible joke in the naturalist community, and it goes something like this: a lichen is a fungus and an algae, and theyâre likinâ one another.ost of the fungi in this relationship are not able to survive without an algal partner. Plants have a superpower that animals and fungi do not have: they can make their own food through photosynthesis.