Solved cryptogram
Nearly every process in your cells is paid for with the same small molecule, and it is recycled.
Biology Facts, sourced to NCBI Bookshelf.
What it means
Adenosine triphosphate is the common currency of biological energy. Muscle contraction, nerve firing, protein assembly and active transport all draw on it. A person holds only a small quantity at any moment, on the order of a few tens of grams, and turns over something close to their own body weight in it over a day, because each molecule is recharged and reused thousands of times.
The claim comes from NCBI Bookshelf, and the page it comes from was read on 2026-08-27 to confirm it still says this.
This is not the kind of claim that goes out of date, which is why it was set as a puzzle rather than a fact with a shelf life.
Solve it yourself
This fact is a cryptogram here: 77 letters over 19 different ones, graded easy.
- SourceNCBI Bookshelf
- CollectionBiology Facts
- Difficultyeasy
- Length77 letters, 19 of them different
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