Please help, I’m an a level student and this topic doesn’t make sense to me.
I understand that APT is generated differently in plants and animals, but there’s also bactera and other organism that use ATP so would there be a more simple and efficient way to describe and classify how each kingdom generate atp?
Also I kind of don’t understand the process of how it’s done. Does anyone have a non-wordy linear explanation of what exactly happens??
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The majority of atp, in both plants and animals, is produced in the Mitochondria. Hence the joke on the internet that the thing everyone learns from biology is that “the Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”.
The mitochondria does the majority of breaking down things like sugars to produce ATP.
In the Mitochondria there is a protein Called ATP Synthase, which synthesizes, or makes, ATP. This protein is embedded in the membrane of the Mitochondria, and part of a larger cycle that I learnt as the “Electron Transport Chain”. Though I am sure that there is a more scientific name for it.
I really don’t know what else to put without it getting really into the nitty gritty, but here is a great video on this topic.
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