The process of respiration is common in all organisms, providing indirect evidence for evolution.
As with photosynthesis, you will discover that the simple one-step equation you learned at GCSE is a real simplification of what actually is going on!
Respiration is a 4 stage process, each stage contains many steps, of which you need to know a few!
You will also be learning about anaerobic respiration in this chapter - in both plants and animals.