ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is the energy-carrying molecule used in cells because it can release energy very quickly. Energy is released from ATP when the end phosphate is removed. Once ATP has ...

This process, called photosynthesis, is essential to the global carbon cycle and organisms that conduct photosynthesis represent the lowest level ... energy-rich carrier molecules, such as ATP ...

According to molecular biologist Leslie Orgel, this is the single most counterintuitive idea in biology after ... to conserve the energy released in the form of ATP (the universal energy currency ...