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What is the name of the molecule shown below?

What is the name of the molecule shown below?-example-1
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This molecule is called ATP

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The molecule shown below is a molecule that is generally termed as the energy currency molecule of the cell, and that is ATP.

The components of it include:
1. Adenine nitrogenous base, the far left
2.Ribose, sugar the same sugar found in RNA molecules, middle.
3. Triphosphate - 3 covalently bound phosphate groups ready to split apart as they don't typically like being bonded in that manner, due to charges on phosphate, being negatively charged.
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