Just as monetary currency increased trade and prosperity dramatically, enabling complex societies to evolve, and just as the energy currency of electricity allowed societies to become incredibly complex technologically, the efficient production of ATP allowed cells to become ever more complex and specialized. ATP is a small molecule and makes its way, as needed, all over the cell. It provides the energy for everything from making the components of the cell, to moving around parts of the cell, to enabling cells themselves to move. Our muscles use ATP to generate the power to contract. In our
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