A structure composed of peptidoglycan and often chitin in addition to other materials. It usually forms perpendicular to the long axis of a cell or hypha and grows centripetally from the cell wall to the center of the cell and often functions in the compartmentalization of a cell into two daughter cells. (Gene Ontology, GO_0030428)
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11 genes co-occuring with the biological term septum in literature-supported statements describing functions of genes from the GeneRIF Biological Term Annotations dataset.
