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 ...

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

If oxygen is available to the cell then the pyruvate molecules can be further broken down in stage two to release more energy and produce a greater quantity of ATP. A pyruvate molecule enters the ...