In school I learned how, when cells need energy, ATP releases it. Supposedly, there is now a chunk of energy floating around in the cell? What is this “energy”? What is it made of? How does it get from the mitochondria way over to the part of the cell that needed it? How does it get put to use? I feel like school is leaving out a huge amount of important information.
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So far, the answers boil down to:
1) When cells need energy, ATP releases it.
2) Our cells figure out how to get the energy where it needs to go, somehow.
3) You’re not allowed to know the answer until you go to college, sorry.
Um… thanks?
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Basically at a very high level, your cells have a ton of tiny molecular machines that are powered by ATP among other things, and when ATP either binds to them, or is broken apart into ADP while attached, it allows the molecular machines to do their job, every thing from protein creation to cell movement to chemical balancing, the energy from the bond breaking is usually converted into kinetic energy to move the machines
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