What determines the nucleotide sequence of the newly synthesized strand during dna replication?

Your answer to this question is nucleotide sequence of the template strand I hope this helps if you need any more questions add me as a friend and I'll try to help as much as I can

Yes the correct answer would be a. direct contact

Are you asking about a street map usage  if so here is your answer  a street map for a very limited area could simply be a bit map or a .jpg image.  but a more general map would probably store the streets as vectors.  but you shouldn't assume that there is one way to do it