Question

How many high-energy bonds does ATP contain?

Answer 1

Hint: ATP is an abbreviation given for adenosine triphosphate and it is an organic compound that is used to carry out many different functions in plants and animals.

Complete answer:
1.ATP that is also known as the currency of energy is a nucleoside triphosphate which is made up of ribose sugar, triphosphate group, and nitrogenous base and in ATP the nitrogenous base is adenine which is classified as a purine.

2.When any reaction consumes ATP, it becomes either ADP that is adenosine diphosphate or AMP that is adenosine monophosphate depending upon the number of phosphate groups consumed by the reaction.

3.ATP contains three phosphate groups and these three phosphates are attached by a bond known as phosphoanhydride bond that is also known as high energy bonds as these bonds are responsible for the extraction of energy from the ATP molecule.

4.Hence the Adenotriphosphate molecule that is ATP molecule contains only two high energy bonds.

Note: Different genetic processes like replication of DNA, transcription of DNA, the formation of RNA involves ATP at one or multiple steps. ATP can also act as a substrate for enzymes in reactions that involves the transfer of phosphate group known as phosphorylation or dephosphorylation The discovery of ATP was done by jendrassik and Karl Lohmann in 1929 but it was also discovered independently by yellapragada Subba Rao and C Fiske. The synthesis of ATP was done in a laboratory for the first time by Alexander Todd.