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What happens when ATP is converted into ADP?

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The Nature of ATP

Step-by-step explanation:

When one phosphate group is removed by breaking a phosphoanhydride bond in a process called hydrolysis, energy is released, and ATP is converted to adenosine diphosphate (ADP) This free energy can be transferred to other molecules to make unfavorable reactions in a cell favorable. When the terminal (third) phosphate is cut loose, ATP becomes ADP (Adenosine diphosphate; di= two), and the stored energy is released for some biological process to utilize.

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