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ATP is used by cells as energy currency because it contains a "high energy" phosphate bond. Since it is high energy it is also labile, so if one were to eat ATP the high acidity in the stomach would cause this bond to break. The products of this reaction would be ADP and a phosphate ion. I'm not sure if this would be further broken down into AMP plus another phosphate, but I think that the ADP or AMP could be directly adsorbed by the stomach lining. Of course, these molecules no longer have the high energy of ATP, so one would not get additional caloric value.
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What phase of cellular respiration does not produce ATP directly?
The Krebs cycle does not directly produce ATP. It produces NADH, FADH2, and GTP. All of which can be used to make ATP.
What molecule releases a form of energy that can be used directly by cells?
ATP or Adenosine Triphosphate. They're the same thing, ATP is just the abbreviation.
What provides the energy that drives the sodium potassium pump?
Adenosine TriPhosphate or "ATP". is used in weukaryotes and PMF i.e. proton motive force is a source of active transport. Energy is supplied directly or indirectly by ATP
In what two processes is ATP formed by substrate- level phosphorylation?
Glycolysis and Citric Acid Cycle (Krebs Cycle) form ATP directly in the Substrate Level of Phosphorylation
Which parts of the mitochondria are directly involved in the synthesis of ATP during chemiosmosis?
matrix and inner membrane
What compound directly provides for cellular work?
ATP ATP
What Energy is directly involved in cellular work?
Chemical energy - usually most directly and most efficiently from ATP. But there are times when it doesn't require ATP.
What phase of cellular respiration does not produce ATP directly?
The Krebs cycle does not directly produce ATP. It produces NADH, FADH2, and GTP. All of which can be used to make ATP.
How do you get nutrition from the sun?
The sun aids to human nutrition directly and indirectly. Directly, the sun's rays provide vitamin D and indirectly through ATP/photosynthesis It gives energy to plants that we eat and the animals that eat them (which we also eat.) You will get the most indirect nutrition from the the sun (energy) if you eat plants.
What molecule directly provides the energy you need for your muscles to contract?
ATP (Adenosine Tri-Phosphate)
Does the tca directly produce the majority of the cells ATP?
no
Chemiosmosis in mitochondria directly results in the synthesis of?
atp
What two things are directly produced from glucose?
ATP and NADPH
What molecule directly supplies the energy for the cytoplasmic streaming?
ATP
Why is ATP generated in photosynthesis rather than using light energy to directly synthesise carbohydrates?
your mum likes ATP
Is glucose used as an energy source?
Not directly. Glucose is used in cellular respiration to turn ADP into ATP, but it is ATP that is used for energy.
Why do animal cells need oxygen most directly?
Produce ATP
