ATP: The Currency Of The Human Body

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Next we have ATP, and what does that stand for exactly? ATP stands for adenosine triphosphate. ATP is so important and essential to our bodies that it is said by scientists to be the energy currency of the human body and even life! It carries chemical energy within cells for metabolism. Now ATP is what we call the “high energy” molecule that is responsible for storing all of our energy that we need as organisms to perform just about every action that one could think of. If we do something you could bet that ATP played some sort of role in the aid of doing such. Now where is ATP located? Well it is located in the cytoplasm as well as the nucleoplasm and is involved in about every mechanism that we know of that requires stored energy in order