The number _____ and _____ sign are assigned to the first nucleotide of a transcriptional unit.
a. 0, positive
b. 1, negative
c. 1, positive
d. 0, no sign
No idea what the answer might be.
Since this is not my area of expertise, I searched Google under the key words ""first nucleotide" number sign" to get these possible sources:
http://www.hgvs.org/mutnomen/recs.html
http://www.hgvs.org/mutnomen/recs-DNA.html
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http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/misc/pnuc1.html
In the future, doing similar searches can help to get your answers more quickly.
I hope this helps. Thanks for asking.