The phrase "a native function" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in programming or technical contexts to refer to a function that is built into a programming language or environment, as opposed to one that is user-defined.
Example: "In JavaScript, a native function like 'parseInt' allows you to convert a string into an integer."
Alternatives: "built-in function" or "standard function".
The Android apps are far more interesting because they have the ability to integrate with any native function (so, for example, Google Voice, banned on the iPhone, has taken over the myTouch native dialer).
The highly hydrophobic nature of membrane proteins and the requirement of a lipid bilayer for native function have hampered the structural and molecular characterizations of these proteins under physiologically relevant conditions.
Through these genetic mutations, a protein can loss its native function (loss-of-function), or it can confer a new function (gain-of-function) [ 2- 5].
Through these genetic mutations, a protein can lose its native function (loss-of-function, LoF), or it can confer a new function (gain-of-function, GoF).
Its native function as a bacterial anti-viral system was uncovered in the dairy bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus a decade ago2.
Our elucidation of the molecular defect caused by mutations in Rab7 illustrates an alternative mechanism: toxic misregulation of native function.
This observation adds a very interesting and counter intuitive caveat: if the activity of the native function cannot be altered, selection has a better chance improving those functions of a gene that are more different from the original function.
But we have been collecting structurized data so if we decide to turn on a native app function, we can create them with one click.
Prezi is currently testing a native embed function to allow presentations to be published to blogs and other websites without fuss (previously you had to muck about yourself with iframes).
