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| | Olympus MIC-D: Polarized Light Gallery - Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Adenosine triphosphate, the chemical energy currency of the plant and animal world, is required to for all the processes that keep organisms alive. |
 | | Adenosine triphosphate, a nucleotide, consists of a ribose (five-carbon sugar), a phosphate chain, and a purine base containing carbon and nitrogen atoms (adenine). |
 | | In 1997, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was shared by Dr. John Walker of Cambridge University, Dr. Paul Boyer from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and Danish scientist Dr. Jens Skou for their detailed description of the phosphorus cycle featured in the mitochondria of animal cells and the chloroplasts of plant cells. |
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