Where Does Human Body Get Inorganic Phosphate for ATP Cycle?

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Where does the human body get the inorganic phosphate needed to carry out the ATP cycle. Is it derived from food, chemical reactions or does our body produce it?.

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We eat other organisms -- plants, animals, fungi. All of these contain nucleic acids, which contain phosphate groups.