Biology lichen organism

construct a paragraph of just a few sentences that describes how you would use the scientific method to figure out whether a specific organism called a lichen was alive or not. You should go online and read about lichens at this site.https://www.nybg.org/bsci/lichens/…then I want you to design an experiment that would test for two things. (1) Is a lichen living or not? and (2) Can the fungal part of the lichen symbiont live without the algae plant part? Just in your own words tell me what you would do to test these two things – that is, what an experiment would test for to answer each of these two questions. The entire report need not be more than a paragraph. Once you have described two brief experiments (one for each question above), y