A group of people are building a house. They have a large package of building materials that needs to be moved. A block and tackle, a type of pulley, is used to pull the material up so it can be set in the back of a truck.
Some energy in ATP is released to do work, such as move muscles or force a seedling out of the ground. ... Within the power plants of the cell (mitochondria), energy is used to add one molecule of inorganic phosphate (P) to a molecule of adenosine diphosphate (ADP).
