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What happens when the third phosphate group is removed from an ATP molecule?
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What happens when the third phosphate group is removed from an ATP molecule?

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When the terminal (third) phosphate is cut loose, ATP becomes ADP, meaning Adenosine diphosphate; di= two, and the stored energy is released for some biological process to utilize.
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When one phosphate group is removed by breaking a phosphoanhydride bond in a process called hydrolysis, energy is released

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