When ATP phosphorylates a molecule (gives it a P) to accomplish cellular work, what does ATP become?
1 Answer
May 30, 2018
ATP is adenotriphosphate and so it's that compound, without the three phosphates
Explanation:
Each one of those answers tell you what the chemical composition is. The clue is knowing what ATP is.
ATP is like a battery. It has three phosphates and when something needs energy, it gices it a phosphate. Now it's out of juice because it gave away it's extra Phosphate.
ATP is Adeno TRI phosphate and it loses a phosphorus
Tri means three. It loses one. The molecule your looking for is a two phosphate molecule... a diphosphate molecule.
It can't be carbon dioxide. It can't be oxygen. You're looking for what happens to ATP when the only change that has occurred, is that it lost a phosphate. Nothing was added to it.
