Microbiology: A Systems Approach 4th Edition by Marjorie Kelly Cowan

Exercise 7

Critical thinking is the ability to reason and solve problems using facts and concepts. These questions can be approached from a number of angles and, in most cases, they do not have a single correct answer.
a. Describe the chemical properties of ATP that make it suitable as "metabolic money" within a biological cell.
b. Compare and contrast the processes of substrate-level phosphorylation, oxidative phosphorylation, and photophosphorylation. Provide one example of how each is used in a biological cell.