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Why is ATP used as an active energy source over glucose?

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If you want to get some energy out of an ATP molecule, all you have to do is break off one of those phosphate groups. ... The ATP hydrolysis looks more like the breaking down of polysaccharides into glucose than the catabolism of glucose itself, and this is at the core of the difference between the two molecules
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