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Give appropriate biological/technical terms for the following.
The energy currency of the cell.

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ATP is known as the energy currency of a cell because usually energy liberated from the ATP molecule by a reaction that removes one of the phosphate-oxygen groups, leaving back adenosine diphosphate (ADP). This process creates the energy for the cell to work.

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