About This Lesson
We need energy to live, but how do we get it? We eat food and, via the process of respiration, we transfer the energy within this food to energy our bodies can use. Respiration is the chemical process of releasing energy from organic compounds. It is a series of enzyme-controlled reactions in which energy is transferred to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP) from adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and inorganic phosphate (Pi).
