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What is the energy currency of the cell? Write it in expanded form. Which cell organelle is related to the currency?

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Energy is usually liberated from the ATP molecule to do work in the cell by a reaction that removes one of the phosphate-oxygen groups, leavingadenosine diphosphate (ADP).so the energy currency of the cell is ATP.
ATP is called the energy currency of the cell, and of life, because it is the energy molecule that all cells need in order to do anything within the human body. The molecule is used like a battery within cells and allows the consumption of one of its phosphorous molecules.

Mitochondria is related to the energy currency.

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